Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

New Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-46397-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Edmund Waller (1606–1687): New Perspectives reappraises the life and works of an important but neglected seventeenth-century English poet. Admired at court in the 1630s and at the Restoration, Waller made a deep impression on contemporary poetry: his collection of Poems (1645) was widely acclaimed and had an ‘extraordinary impact’ on future poets. The book investigates, among other things, Waller’s political views on affairs of state, his social and literary interactions with younger poets, his friendship with John Evelyn while in exile, his technical poetic innovations, his rivalry with Andrew Marvell, his elegies, and his contemporary and posthumous reputation.

Contributors: Warren Chernaik, Daniel Cook, Stephen Deng, Martin Dzelzainis, Richard Hillyer, Philip Major, Michael P. Parker, Tessie Prakas, Geoffrey Smith, Thomas Ward, and Gillian Wright.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Major, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Philip Major

1 ‘Power Unbounded and a Will Confined’: Waller’s Politics

Warren Chernaik

2 Banished from the ‘frantic isle’: Edmund Waller in Exile

Geoffrey Smith

3 Waller, Marvell, and ‘La Belle Stuart’ Reconsidered

Martin Dzelzainis

4 ‘… and Musick too’: Edmund Waller on the Pages of Ayres and Dialogues (1653)

Thomas Ward

5 ‘We Plough the Deep, and Reap What Others Sow’: Waller’s Panegyrick and the Empire of Trade

Stephen Deng

6 ‘… like Orpheus, with My Numerous Moan’: Wit by Association in Waller’s 1645 Poems

Tessie Prakas

7 ‘Such Huge Extremes’: Waller, Denham and the Emergence of Neoclassical Distichs

Richard Hillyer

8 Waller’s Elegies

Daniel Cook

9 In Praise of Mr. Waller

Gillian Wright

10 Waller and the Wits: Poetry, Reputation, and Generational Conflict at the Court of Charles II

Michael P. Parker

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).