"Edmund Waller" OR "Waller Edmund" - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Toward an Augustan Poetic: Edmund Waller's 'Reform' of English Poetry

Book by Alexander Ward Allison; University of Kentucky Press, 1962

Subjects:

English Poetry--Early Modern (To 1700)--History And Criticism, Waller, Edmund--1606-1687

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...statement to have been made about Edmund Waller, a still greater curiosity is that...identified it with the correctness which Edmund Waller had imparted to English poetry when...confident that the reforms initiated by Edmund Waller had brought English prosody at once...
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Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse, 1625-1660

Book by Peter Davidson; Clarendon Press, 1998

Subjects:

English Poetry--Early Modern, 1500-1700, Great Britain--Civilization--17th Century--Poetry, Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Poetry, Revolutionary Poetry, English

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A completely new examination of mid-seventeenth-century verse from the British Islands, this work questions and discards the old label "Cavalier Poetry" and argues for a literary interpretation that demonstrates the verse as a canon rich in tumultuous, pluralistic, and radical writing.
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The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors

Book by Alan Hager; Greenwood Press, 2004

Subjects:

American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Dictionaries, Authors, American--To 1700--Biography--Dictionaries, Authors, English--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Dictionaries, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Dictionaries, Milton, John--1608-1674--Contemporaries--Dictionaries, United States--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of ...
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The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of the period reflects the intellectual and emotional fervor of the age. This reference chronicles the lives and works of more than 75 British and American writers of the 17th century.
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Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary

Book by Christopher Baker; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Authoritarianism--Europe--History--17th Century, Authoritarianism--Europe--History--18th Century, Enlightenment--Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book--the sixth volume in The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World series--provides information on more than 400 individuals who created and played a role in the era's intellectual and cultural activity. The book's focus is on cultural figures--those whose inventions and discoveries ...
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This book--the sixth volume in The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World series--provides information on more than 400 individuals who created and played a role in the era's intellectual and cultural activity. The book's focus is on cultural figures--those whose inventions and discoveries contributed to the scientific revolution, those whose line of reasoning contributed to secularism, groundbreaking artists like Rembrandt, lesser known painters, and contributors to art and music.
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Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England

Book by Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth; University of Missouri Press, 2000

Subjects:

Authors, English--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Biography--Congresses, Community In Literature--Congresses, Community Life--England--History--17th Century--Congresses, England--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Congresses, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism--Congresses, Literature And Society--England--History--17th Century--Congresses, Renaissance--England--Congresses, Social Interaction In Literature--Congresses, Social Interaction--England--History--17th Century--Congresses

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...state, and letters as Edward Hyde, George Morley, Henry Hammond, William Chillingworth, Thomas Hobbes, George Sandys, Edmund Waller, Sidney Godolphin, and John Hales. Stanwood explores the influence of Richard Hookers Off the Lawes off Ecclesiastical...

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Edmund Waller, English Precieux

Journal article by Thomas Kaminski; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000

Subjects:

Poetry--17th century, Poets--Influence, Waller, Edmund--Influence

Collections: Entire Library

Edmund Waller, English Precieux by THOMAS...vagaries of poetic reputations knows that Edmund Waller is a problem. When he died in 1687...Drurys introduction to The Poems of Edmund Waller (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893...
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Edmund Waller's Sacred Poems

Journal article by Richard Hillyer; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 39, 1999

Subjects:

English literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Waller, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Richard Hillyer At seventy-nine, Edmund Waller published the slim volume Divine Poems...established. 2 Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Edmund Waller," Lives of the English Poets, ed. George...1:291, 292-3. 3 Jack G. Gilbert, Edmund Waller(Boston: Twayne, 1979), p. 35; Warren...
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The Glory That Was Rome-And Grenada, and Rhodes, and Tenochtitlan: Pleasurable Conquests, Supernatural Liaisons, and Apparitional Drama in Interregnum Entertainments

Journal article by Kevin L. Cope; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 32, 1999

Subjects:

Davenant, William--Conduct of life, English literature--17th century, Impresarios--Conduct of life, Theatrical publishing--Censorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the Bibliographical Society of America 71 (1977): 473-86. Waller, Edmund, and John Denham. The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham. Edinburgh: Nimmo, 1869. KEVIN L. COPE is Professor of English Literature and a member of the...
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Not Quite All, My Dear: Gender and Voice in Frost

Journal article by Donald G. Sheehy; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 36, 1994

Subjects:

Literature--History And Criticism, Philology

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Robert Frost: The Early Years . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Waller, Edmund. The Poems of Edmund Waller . Ed. G. Thorn Drury. London: G. Routledge Sons, 1893. Warren, Robert Penn. "Pure and Impure Poetry...
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Waller's Verses to Dr. George Rogers

Journal article by Gary Storhoff; The Explicator, Vol. 36, 1978

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Wallers VERSES TO DR. GEORGE ROGERS Edmund Waller is often dismissed as an artless poet unconcerned with ideas, yet his "Verses to Dr. George Rogers" demonstrates his ability...

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Sweetness & Spite

Magazine article by R. J. Stove; American Conservative, Vol. 8, August 2009

Subjects:

Literature, McGinley, Phyllis, Modernism, Poetry, Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955), White, E B (1899-1985), Writers

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...herself as belonging to the tradition of 17thcentury Englands so-called Cavalier Poets - Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, and John Suckling, to name a handful - who eschewed the selfconscious, syntax-wrecking convolutions of John Donne and his...

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So You Want to Live In.New Cross

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 3, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...stations are also on the East LondonTube line. SCHOOLS Good and improving primaries include Ashmead, Childeric, Tidemill, Edmund Waller, Kender, Monson and St Jamess Hatcham CofE.The secondaries are Addey and Stanhope and Deptford Green, both mixed comprehensives...
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2,200 Families Still Fighting for a Place at School; EDUCATION,SCHOOLS

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...need for a place at a nearby secondary school is particularly acute for Riordan Edwards-Brown, 11. Riordan, currently at Edmund Waller Primary School in Lewisham, has learning difficulties as a result of a brain injury as a baby. It leaves him prone to panic...
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So You Want to Live In.Nunhead

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 2, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Nunhead Lane. State primaries include Hollydale Primary School, the well-regarded Rye Oak Primary School and the excellent Edmund Waller. Best secondary option is the Haberdashers Aske Hatcham College. Theres also the Addey Stanhope in New Cross. Otherwise its...
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We're Recruiting for the CIA (Church Intelligence Agency); RESTORATION PROJECT: Bid to Trace Families of Original Patrons

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), April 10, 2006

Subjects:

Intelligence service

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Elizabeth Branson and sisters Eva and Ada. Ernest and Louisa Waller, died 1845 and 1874. Lt Henry Waller, died 1873 Capt Edmund Waller, died 1871. John and Mary Garner, died 1863 and 1880. UNDER REPAIR... The Rev Mervyn Roberts admires one of the stained glass...
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Men Take a Narrow View of Female Perfection

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 12, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Beautiful women in the Palace of Chu, there were none who did not admire their slender waist." Nearer our own time, we have Edmund Waller fantasising about being a girdle: "That which her slender waist confined shall now my joyful temples bind." Although Kenneth...

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Waller, Edmund

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

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...

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