Their work is marked by bold and ingenious conceits, complexity, and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression.
It blends emotion and intellectual ingenuity, characterized by conceit, i. e. by sometimes forced juxtaposition of apparently unconnected ideas and things, which startles the reader out of complacency and into the argument of the poem.
[4] Leigh wrote "The Transposer Rehearsed, or the Fifth Act of Mr. Baye's Play; being a Post-script to the Animadversions on the Preface to Bishop Bramhall's Vindication" and an attacking pamphlet in 1673 entitled "A Censure of the Rota in Mr. Dryden's Conquest of Granada".
Leigh also published Poems upon Several Occasions and to Several Persons (1675), which includes the following: [5] The Whisper Fairest, what means this close address, As if you would a hearing steal?
Unwilling to spread forth the news, As dreading to displease the fair, It does through secret pipes diffuse, As loth to mix with common air.