Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

Philip Major is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration (Ashgate, 2013), and has edited several volumes of essays, including Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature: Exploring Abraham Cowley (Routledge, 2020).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPhilip Major1 ‘Power Unbounded and a Will Confined’: Waller’s PoliticsWarren Chernaik2 Banished from the ‘frantic isle’: Edmund Waller in ExileGeoffrey Smith3 Waller, Marvell, and ‘La Belle Stuart’ ReconsideredMartin Dzelzainis4 ‘… and Musick too’: Edmund Waller on the Pages of Ayres and Dialogues (1653)Thomas Ward5 ‘We Plough the Deep, and Reap What Others Sow’: Waller’s Panegyrick and the Empire of TradeStephen Deng6 ‘… like Orpheus, with My Numerous Moan’: Wit by Association in Waller’s 1645 PoemsTessie Prakas7 ‘Such Huge Extremes’: Waller, Denham and the Emergence of Neoclassical DistichsRichard Hillyer8 Waller’s ElegiesDaniel Cook9 In Praise of Mr. WallerGillian Wright10 Waller and the Wits: Poetry, Reputation, and Generational Conflict at the Court of Charles IIMichael P. ParkerIndex