Edmund Waller (1606-1687) : : new perspectives / / edited by Philip Major.

• TeilnehmendeR: Major, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) :; illustrations
• Other title: Acknowledgements --; List of Figures --; Abbreviations --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction /; 1 ‘Power Unbounded and a Will Confined’: Waller’s Politics /; 2 Banished from the ‘frantic isle’: Edmund Waller in Exile --; Geoffrey Smith --; 3 Waller, Marvell, and ‘La Belle Stuart’ Reconsidered /; 4 ‘… and Musick too’: Edmund Waller on the Pages of Ayres and Dialogues (1653) /; 5 ‘We Plough the Deep, and Reap What Others Sow’: Waller’s Panegyrick and the Empire of Trade /; 6 ‘… like Orpheus, with My Numerous Moan’: Wit by Association in Waller’s 1645 Poems /; 7 ‘Such Huge Extremes’: Waller, Denham and the Emergence of Neoclassical Distichs /; 8 Waller’s Elegies --; Daniel Cook --; 9 In Praise of Mr. Waller /; 10 Waller and the Wits: Poetry, Reputation, and Generational Conflict at the Court of Charles II /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004523138
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Philip Major.

A critical reappraisal of an important but neglected seventeenth-century English writer. Waller’s works, particularly his collection of Poems (1645), drew high praise from, and influenced, a number of well-known contemporary and future poets.