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The Cavaliers

Raymond Anselment Loyalist Resolve (Associated University Press, 1988)

Thomas Clayton, ed., Cavalier Poets: Selected Poems (OUP, 1978) (a collection of Cavalier verse)

Thomas Corns, Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660 (OUP, 1992)

Terence Dawson and Robert Scott Dupree, eds., Seventeenth Century English Poetry: the Annotated Anthology (Harvester, 1994) (a collection with a selection of Cavalier verse)

James Loxley, Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars: the drawn sword (Macmillan, 1997)

Louis L. Martz, The Wit of Love: Donne, Carew, Crashaw, Marvell (Notre Dame Univ. Press, 1969 (it includes an essay on Carew)

Arthur Marotti, Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance Lyric  (Cornell University Press, 1995)

Nicholas McDowell,  Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (OUP, 2008) 

Lois Potter, Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature 1641-1660 (CUP, 1989)

A.J. Smith. ‘The Failure of Love: Love Lyrics after Donne’ in D.J. Palmer and Malcolm Bradbury, eds., Metaphysical Poetry (Edward Arnold, 1970)

L.E. Semler, The English Mannerist Poets and the Visual Arts  (Fairliegh Dickinson  Univ. Press, 1998 (It includes an essay on Lovelace)

Kevin  Sharpe, Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles 1 (CUP, 1990)

Joseph H. Summers, The Heirs of Donne and Jonson (Chatto and Windus, 1970)

Robert Wilcher, The Discontented Cavalier: The Work of John Suckling in its Social, Religious, Political and Literary Contexts (University of Delaware Press, 2008)

--The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660  (CUP, 2000)

Blair Worden, Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England (OUP, 2007)