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

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Philip Major -- 1 ‘Power Unbounded and a Will Confined’: Waller’s Politics / Warren Chernaik -- 2 Banished from the ‘frantic isle’: Edmund Waller in Exile -- Geoffrey Smith -- 3 Waller, Marvell, and ‘La Belle Stuart’ Reconsidered / Martin Dzelzainis -- 4 ‘… and Musick too’: Edmund Waller on the Pages of Ayres and Dialogues (1653) / Thomas Ward -- 5 ‘We Plough the Deep, and Reap What Others Sow’: Waller’s Panegyrick and the Empire of Trade / Stephen Deng -- 6 ‘… like Orpheus, with My Numerous Moan’: Wit by Association in Waller’s 1645 Poems / Tessie Prakas -- 7 ‘Such Huge Extremes’: Waller, Denham and the Emergence of Neoclassical Distichs / Richard Hillyer -- 8 Waller’s Elegies -- Daniel Cook -- 9 In Praise of Mr. Waller / Gillian Wright -- 10 Waller and the Wits: Poetry, Reputation, and Generational Conflict at the Court of Charles II / Michael P. Parker -- Index.