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Edmund Waller

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Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

  1. Born in Coleshill, Hertfordshire.
  2. Made the Comissioner of Trade.
  3. Studied in Eton College Chambridge.
  4. Waller is considered to be a pioneer who refined the classical couplet in English verse.
  5. Works:
    1. A Panegyric to my Lord Protector (1655)
    2. To the King, upon his Majesty’s Happy Return Being challenged by Charles II
    3. Divine poems (1685)
    4. The Second Part of Mr Waller’s Poems (1690)
    5. Go Lovely Rose
      1. Beginning: ‘Go, lovely rose!/Tell her that wastes her time and me / That now she knows, / When I resemble her to thee,/ How sweet and fair she seems to be.”
      2. a carpe diem poem. similar to two other famous poems: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648) by Robert Herrick and To his Coy Mistress (1681) by Andrew Marvell.
    6. On a Girdle.

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