Author:Edmund Waller

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Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

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English poet and politician

Edmund Waller

Works

• A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, also known as Panegyric to Cromwell
• Upon the Late Storm, and Death of the Late Usurper Oliver Cromwel (1682)
• On a Girdle
• To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return.
• The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq.: In Verse and Prose (1768)
• Poetical works of Edmund Waller (1854), edited by Robert Bell

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.

Works about Waller

• "Edmund Waller" in The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 1, 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 A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Waller, Edmund," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.