Edmund Waller

(1606-1687)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687 NRA: Waller Edmund (1606-1687) Poet DNB: Waller, Edmund (1606-1687), poet and politician LBT ID: EdWalle1687 VIAF ID: 47109686 LOC ID: n78097077	B/BAP: 1606-03-03 DIED: 1687-10-21
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Poet and politician remembered for the deviousness of his politics, the wealth of his estate, and the smoothness of his verse. His lyrics addressed to Sacharissa were much admired.
REFERENCES TO Edmund Waller: R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, 7 February 1809 in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Keats. With a Criticism on his Writings. Found 1: ¶ 2 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXVIII Found 1: ¶ 16 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 23 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 1: ¶ 22 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 20 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter I. 1753-1781 Found 1: ¶ 34 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Family History Found 1: ¶ 5 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 186 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 101 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter 4 Found 1: ¶ 31 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 9