Edmund Waller (1606-1687) : : new perspectives / / 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.
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) :; illustrations |
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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.