Developed for a high school unit on the age of Milton, this guide is designed to examine the dominant literary modes of thought expressed in Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," Milton's "Comus,""Paradise Lost," and "Paradise Regained," and John Donne's metaphysical poetry. Performance objectives are listed along with a rationale for the course and its content. A section entitled "Teaching Strategies" contains suggestions for exercises, activities, and materials. The guide concludes with a list of student and teacher resources including state-adopted textbooks, nonstate-adopted textbooks, additional reference materials, recordings, films, filmstrips, and sound-slide surveys. (RB)