Books about English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism

Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama

Lives of the English Poets

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope