Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller
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Short Name: Edmund Waller
Full Name: Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687
Birth Year: 1606
Death Year: 1687

Waller, Edmund, poet and politician, born 1605, educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and died in 1687. From his Poetical Works, 1730 (ed. by Fenton), his sweet lyric in Thring's Collection, 1882, and others, "The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er" (Old Age) is taken.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who was Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons. When he died, Waller was considered a major English poet, but his reputation declined over the next century, one view seeing him as a 'fairweather Royalist, an expedient Republican and mercenary bridegroom'. He is now regarded as a minor author, whose primary significance was to develop a form adapted and improved by later poets like Alexander Pope.
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