Dodona's Grove

[3] Dodona's Grove is an allegory of Europe, particularly England, depicting events between 1603 and 1640.

[3] Dodona, in the title, refers to the ancient Hellenic oracle of Zeus in Epirus.

[4] Covered in the poem are the Spanish match, the Gunpowder Plot, the murder of Thomas Overbury, and the assassination of Buckingham.

[7] Historian Henry Hallam criticized the work harshly, calling it "clumsy", "unintelligible", "dull", and "an entire failure".

[2] Bibliographer Albrecht von Haller was tricked into including Dodona's Grove in his Bibliotheca Botanica.