Editing Dodona's Grove (section)

== Description ==

''Dodona's Grove'' is an allegory of Europe, particularly England, depicting events between 1603 and 1640.<ref name="hansche">{{cite book | last=Hansche | first=Maude Bingham | title=The Formative Period of English Familiar Letter-writers and Their Contribution to the English Essay | publisher=Haskell | year=1902 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdzZIY6XRRsC&pg=PA37 | access-date=February 3, 2021 | pages=37–38}}</ref>  Dodona, in the title, refers to the [[Dodona|ancient Hellenic oracle]] of [[Zeus]] in [[Epirus]].<ref>{{cite journal | journal=The Seventeenth Century | last=Major | first=Philip | date=2010 | title='To wound an oak': the Poetics of Tree-felling at Nun Appleton | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/845502450 | volume=25 | issue=1 | issn=0268-117X | pages=143–157| id={{ProQuest|845502450}} }}</ref>

Covered in the poem are the [[Spanish match]], the [[Gunpowder Plot]], the murder of [[Thomas Overbury]], and [[John Felton (assassin)#Assassination of Buckingham|the assassination of Buckingham]].<ref>{{cite journal | journal=Huntington Library Quarterly | issn=0018-7895 | date=1937 | title=The "Gentleman's Library" in Early Virginia | last=Wright | first=Louis B. | volume=1 | page=15 | jstor=3815892 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3815892}}</ref> The political criticisms in ''Dodona's Grove'' may have contributed to Howell's imprisonment in 1643.{{r|hansche}}

In the poem, plants represent prominent persons.<ref>{{cite journal | journal=The Princeton University Library Chronicle | last=McKenzie | first=Kenneth | title=Some Remarks on a Fable Collection | date=1944 | volume=5 | issue=4 | issn=0032-8456 | page=142 | doi=10.2307/26400862 | jstor=26400862 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/26400862| url-access=subscription }}</ref> The British oak tree in ''Dodona's Grove'' represents [[Stuart period|the Stuarts]].<ref>{{cite journal | journal=SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 | last=Hamrick | first=Wes | title=Trees in Anne Finch's Jacobite Poems of Retreat | date=2013 | volume=53 | issue=3 | page=542}}</ref>