Edmund Waller Summary

Edmund Waller today is chiefly remembered, by those who remember him at all, for one of three things: his craven behavior in connection with the exposure of an abortive Royalist conspiracy, known as "... Read more

In the following essay, Bateson explores reasons for the decline in Waller's reputation as a poet. Waller is the Augustan Wyatt. ‘Unless he had written’, Dryden owned, ‘... Read more

In the following essay, discusses the influences of Waller's poetic diction. There is general consent, now as in 1700, that the language of English poetry should simultaneously fulfill our e... Read more

In the following excerpt, Chernaik argues that Waller was instrumental in the development of poetic satire. Waller served as an example to his neoclassical successors in two ways—as a model ... Read more

In the following essay, Gilbert discusses the influence of the myth of Orpheus on Waller's aesthetic and analyzes the reception of his work by his contemporaries and by present-day commentators... Read more

In the following essay, Kaminski argues that Waller was the first English precieux poet. Everyone who has pondered the vagaries of poetic reputations knows that Edmund Waller is a problem. When he ... Read more