Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

Philip Major is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration (Ashgate, 2013), and has edited several volumes of essays, including Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature: Exploring Abraham Cowley (Routledge, 2020).

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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



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