| Term | Definition |
| John Milton | The greatest poetof that time who wrote "paradise lost" when he was blind |
| Paradise Lost | A story before the beginning of time about the universe, Adam and eve, and the inmportance of obedience to God |
| The Period of Restoration | The restoration of all that was objectionable in monarchy |
| "L'Allegro" | a poetic expression of a happy state of mind |
| Nonconformists | the non separating puritans after the restoration |
| dissenters | separating purtitans after resoration |
| Epic | the style of Miltons writing |
| sublime | exalted above the ordinary |
| blank verse | having no sense of rythm |
| The puritans in 1564 | Calvanists, legalists and name callers |
| Thomas Cartwright | in 1569 outlines the puritan program |
| the geneva bible | an expenive edidtion with calvinist notes published in 1575 |