'Admired and Understood' analyses Behn's only pure verse collection, 'Poems upon Several Occasions' (1684), and situates her in her literary milieu as a poet.

The ensuing chapters concern Behn's response to Rochester's libertine aesthetic, a close reading of "On a Juniper-Tree" (a poem central to her collection), Katherine Philips as Behn's most important predecessor as a woman writing poetry, and her epistolary verse novel, A Voyage to the Isle of Love, the cornerstone and climax of her collection. M. L. Stapleton is Professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University.