| LYCIDAS | Poem by English writer John Milton about a shepherd first published in 1638 (7) |
| WAIN | English writer John Barrington |
| ANGELO | Brotherhood of Man hit about a shepherd boy (6) |
| SHEAR | Shepherd's first try to remove a fleece |
| DAVENANT | William ___, English dramatist and poet who succeeded Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate in 1638 (8) |
| COVENANT | National ----, signed by thousands of Scots in 1638 (8) |
| BRAGANZA | Catherine of ____, queen consort of King Charles II born in 1638 (8) |
| GRECIAN | Ode on a ____ Urn, poem by English Romantic poet John Keats published in 1820 (7) |
| TRIUMPH | The other 'impostor' with Disaster in the poem If by English writer Rudyard Kipling (7) |
| PLOWMAN | Allegorical narrative poem by English poet William Langland (c. 1370) that makes the first known literary reference to Robin Hood (7) |
| SOLDIER | The ___ , poem by English war poet Rupert Brooke (7) |
| TERENCE | Recent novel by English writer (7) |
| JOHNSON | Lexicographer whose Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets comprises short biographies of writers including John Milton, Samuel Butler and John Dryden (7) |
| STYGIAN | 'Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnight born, /'In ___ cave forlorn' (John Milton 'L'Allegro', 1645) (7) |
| HOBBEMA | Dutch painter: 1638-1709 |
| SEAFEVEF | 1902 poem by English poet John Masefield featuring the line 'And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by' (3-5) |
| BEAUTY | Black ____ , novel by English writer Anna Sewell published in 1877 about a horse (6) |
| PARADISELOST | Epic poem in blank verse by English poet John Milton, first published in ten books in 1667 (8,4) |
| INVICTUS | Poem by English poet WE Henley, published in 1888 and noted for its evocation of stoicism (8) |
| BLEAKMIDWINTER | In The ____ , carol based on a poem by English Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (5,9) |
