Possible Clues:

• Flat, hideaway for poet
• John -, English seventeenth century poet, dramatist
• Poet's boring to study
• Charles II's Poet Laureate
• 'Marriage A-la-Mode' playwright, 1672
• Poet was lost for words, an audience heard
• 17th century English poet and dramatist
• Snug the Lion goes here, suggests playwright
• Poet set down empty outside island resort
• Early English poet laureate