Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Waller’s life and works
* Concise introduction to Waller’s life and poetry
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* The complete poems, based on the 1887 James Nichol publication, including hyperlinked footnotes
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Waller’s rare translation of Virgil, ‘The Passion of Dido for Aeneas’, digitised for the first time
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Features two published plays, including Waller’s revision of the Beaumont and Fletcher play, ‘The Maid’s Tragedy’
* Includes Waller’s extant parliamentary speeches
* Features three biographies, including Samuel Johnson’s seminal work — discover Waller’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Life and Poetry of Edmund Waller
Brief Introduction: Edmund Waller by John William Cousin
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller
The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Plays
Pompey the Great
The Maid’s Tragedy Altered
The Speeches
Waller’s Speeches
The Biographies
Waller by Samuel Johnson
The Life of Edmund Waller by George Gilfillan
Edmund Waller by George Thorn-Drury
