Edmund Waller
Waller, Edmund - 1606–87, English poet. He studied at Eton and Cambridge and became a prominent speaker in Parliament at a young age. He married twice (1631 and 1644), but his early poems are addressed to "Sacharissa," Lady Dorothy Sidney, who refused to marry him. Although at first an antiroyalist, he later supported Charles I against Parliament and conceived Read More...
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Edmund Waller
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Toward an Augustan Poetic: Edmund Waller's ''Reform'' of English Poetry
by Alexander Ward Allison. 101 pgs.
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A History of English Literature, Vol. One: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660) ("Edmund Waller" begins on p. 362)
by Emile Legouis, Louis Cazamian, Helen Douglas-Irvine. 390 pgs.
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Edmund Waller's Sacred Poems, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Richard Hillyer. 15 pgs.
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English Poetry (1170-1892) ("Edmund Waller (1606-1687)" begins on p. 174)
by John Matthews Manly. 580 pgs.
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