Author:Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller
(1606–1687)

Edmund Waller

Works

• "To Sr Will. D'Avenant, Upon His Two First Books of Gondibert, Finish'd before his Voyage to America", in Gondibert: An Heroick Poem (1651), by William Davenant
• A Panegyric to my Lord Protector (1655), also known as Panegyric to Cromwell
• The Passion of Dido for Æneas (1658), co-authored with Sidney Godolphin
• To the King upon His Majesty's Happy Return (1660)
• To my Lady Morton,’ &c (1661)
• A Poem on St. James's Park (1661)
• Upon Her Majesty's New Buildings at Somerset House (1665)
• Instructions to a Painter (1666)
• Of the Lady Mary (1677)
• A Poem on the Present Assembling of the Parliament, March the 6th, 1678 (1679)
• "Of this Translation, and of the Use of Poetry", in Horace's Art of Poetry (1680), translated by Wentworth Dillon
• Upon the Late Storm, and Death of the Late Usurper Oliver Cromwel (1682)
• Divine Poems (1685)
• The tryal of John Hambden, Esq. (1719) IA
• The case of the Hanover forces in the pay of Great-Britain (1743), co-authored with Philip Dormer Stanhope IA
• On a Girdle
• The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq.: In Verse and Prose (1768) IA
• Poetical works of Edmund Waller (1777), edited by Robert Bell IA 1, IA 2

Anthologized:

• In Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth (1905):

  "Go lovely Rose!"

  "To the young Lady Lucy Sydney"

Translation

• Pompey the Great: a tragedy (1664), an adaptation and translation of Pierre Corneille's La mort de Pompée (1644), together with Charles Sackville (later 6th Earl of Dorset), Sidney Godolphin, Sir Charles Sedley, and Sir Edward Filmer. Internet Archive identifier: pompeygreattrage00corn

Works about Waller

• "Waller" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.316-395.
• "Edmund Waller" in Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain: English poets, Volume 1 (1839)
• "Waller, Edmund," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Waller, Edmund," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Waller, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)