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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS! 'twas love that injured you, And on that rock your Thyrsis threw; Who for proud Celia could have died, Whilst you no less accused his pride. Fond Love his darts at random throws, 5 And nothing springs from what he sows; From foes discharged, as often meet The shining points of arrows fleet, In the wide air creating fire, As souls that join in one desire. 10 Love made the lovely Venus burn In vain, and for the cold youth mourn, Who the pursuit of churlish beasts Preferred to sleeping on her breasts. Love makes so many hearts the prize 15 Of the bright Carlisle's conquering eyes Which she regards no more than they The tears of lesser beauties weigh. So have I seen the lost clouds pour Into the sea a useless shower; 20 And the vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain. Then, Phyllis, since our passions are Governed by chance; and not the care, But sport of Heaven, which takes delight 25 To look upon this Parthian fight1 Of love, still flying, or in chase, Never encountering face to face No more to love we'll sacrifice, But to the best of deities; 30 And let our hearts, which love disjoined, By his kind mother be combined. TO MR. GEORGE SANDYS, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF SOME PARTS OF THE BIBLE. How bold a work attempts that pen, Which would enrich our vulgar tongue With the high raptures of those men Who, here, with the same spirit sung Wherewith they now assist the choir 5 Of angels, who their songs admire I Whatever those inspired souls Were urged to express, did shake The aged deep, and both the poles; Their numerous thunder could awake IO Dull earth, which does with Heaven consent To all they wrote, and all they meant. Say, sacred bard! what could bestow Courage on thee to soar so high? Tell me, brave friend! ...
(Edmund Waller, FRS was born on March 3rd, 1606 in Coleshi...)
Edmund Waller, FRS was born on March 3rd, 1606 in Coleshill, Buckinghamshire. Waller was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and thence on to Eton and King's College, Cambridge. His adult life is very colourful and displays a man whose adventures and experiences made poetry an obvious vessel to express the journey. He entered Parliament early, at age 18, and was, at first, an active member of the opposition. (Waller was to sit in Parliament at various times from 1624-1679) In 1631 he married a London heiress, a surreptitious marriage to a wealthy ward of the Court of Aldermen. Waller was brought before the Star Chamber for this offence, and heavily fined. Waller was however, a wealthy man and stayed so throughout his life despite the many fines he became liable for. His wife bore him a son and a daughter at Beaconsfield but died in 1634. After her death he unsuccessfully courted Lady Dorothy Sidney, the 'Sacharissa' of his poems. By 1643 he had now switched sides to the Royalists and was the leader in the plot to seize London for Charles I, which is known as "Waller's Plot". On 30 May he and his friends were arrested. In the terror of discovery, Waller confessed "whatever he had said heard, thought or seen, and all that he knew... or suspected of others". His fellow conspirators were far braver and were unwilling to betray their principles or each other. Waller was called before the bar of the House in July, and made an abject and complete speech of recantation. His life was spared and he was committed to the Tower of London, but, on paying a fine of £10,000, he was released and banished from the realm in November 1643. It was now, in 1644 that he married Mary Bracey and together they took up residence at Rouen. She went on to bear him several children. In 1646 Waller travelled with John Evelyn to Switzerland and Italy. He made his peace with Cromwell in 1651 and returned to England but was only restored to favour with Cromwells death and the Restoration of Charles II. By now experience had taught him to keep all sides happy. Accordingly as he wrote poetic tributes to both Oliver Cromwell (1655) and Charles II (1660). A precocious poet; he began to write, it is thought, in his late teens with a complimentary piece on His Majesty's Escape at St Andere written using the heroic couplet. Interestingly throughout his writing career he rejected the dense and intellectual verse of Metaphysical poetry. His more relaxed style helped prepare the way for the emergence of the heroic couplet. By the end of the 17th century it had become the dominant form of English poetry. His style is beguiling and of a polished simplicity. The great John Dryden thought him, along with Sir John Denham, as poets who brought about the Augustan age. Edmund Waller died on October 21st, 1687 at the age of 81. He is buried at St Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield
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Edmund Waller was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.
Background
Edmund Waller was born on 3 March 1606 at Stocks Place, Coleshill, Buckinghamshire. He was the eldest son of Robert Waller of Coleshill (then in Herts, now in Buckinghamshire) and Anne Hampden, his wife.
Early in his childhood his father sold his house at Coleshill and migrated to Beaconsfield.
His father died in 1616, and the future poet's mother, a lady of rare force of character, sent him to Eton and to Cambridge.
Education
Of Waller's early education all we know is his own account that he " was bred under several ill, dull and ignorant schoolmasters, till he went to Mr Dobson at Wickham, who was a good schoolmaster and had been an Eton scholar. "
He was admitted a fellow-ccmmoner of King's College on the 22nd of March 1620.
He left without a degree, and it is believed that in 1621, at the age of only sixteen, he sat as member for Agmondesham (Amersham) in the last parliament of James I. Clarendon says that Waller was " nursed in parliaments. "
Career
In that of 1624 he represented Ilchester, and in the first of Charles I. Chipping Wycombe.
He was brought before the Star Chamber for this offence, and heavily fined.
But his own fortune was large, and all his life Waller was a wealthy man.
It was about this time that the poet was elected into Falkland's Club.
Disappointment, it is said, rendered Waller for a time insane, but this may well be doubted.
In 1640 Waller was once more M. P. for Amersham, and marie certain speeches which attracted wide attention; later, in the Long Parliament, he represented St Ives.
Clarendon says that Waller spoke " upon all occasions with great sharpness and freedom. "
In the terror of discovery, Waller was accused of displaying a very mean poltroonery, and of confessing " whatever he had said, heard, thought or seen, and all that he knew or suspected of others. "
He certainly cut a poor figure by the side of those of his companions who died for their opinions.
His life was spared and he was committed to the Tower, whence, on paying a fine of /10, 000, he was released and banished the realm in November 1643.
Many of the lyrics were already set to music by Henry Lawes.
In 1646 Waller travelled with Evelyn in Switzerland and Italy.
He followed this up, in 1660, by a poem To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return.
He entered the House of Commons again in 1661, as M. P. for Hastings, and Burnet has recorded that for the next quarter of a century " it was no House if Waller was not there. "
His sympathies were tolerant and kindly, and he constantly defended the Nonconformists.
After the death of his second wife, in 1677, Waller retired to his house called Hall Barn at Beaconsfield, and though he returned to London, he became more and more attached to the retirement of his woods, " where, " he said, 44 he found the trees as bare and withered as himself. "
In 1661 he had published his poem, St James' Park; in 1664 he had collected his poetical works; in 1666 appeared his Instructions to a Painter; and in 1685 his Divine Poems.
The final collection of his works is dated 1686, but there were further posthumous additions made in 1690.
Waller bought a cottage at Coleshill, where he was born, meaning to die there; 44 a stag, " he said, 44 when he is hunted, and near spent, always returns home. "
But he resolutely placed himself in the forefront of reaction against the violence and 44 conceit " into which the baser kind of English poetry was descending.
It is, of course, obvious that Waller could not 44 introduce" what had been invented, and admirably exemplified, by Chancer.
Waller was writing in the regular heroic measure, afterwards carried to so high a perfection by Dryden and Pope, as early as 1623 (if not, as has been supposed, even in 1621).
His early poems include "On a Girdle" and "Go, lovely rose"; his later "Instructions to a Painter" (1666, on the Battle of Solebay) and "Of the Last Verses in the Book", containing the famous lines, 'The Soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. ' His Poems first appeared in 1645, and Divine Poems in 1685.
Quotations:
Being challenged by Charles II to explain why this latter piece was inferior to the eulogy of Cromwell, the poet smartly replied, " Sir, we poets never succeed so well in writing truth as in fiction. "
Membership
He was a member of the Falkland's Club.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
John Dryden repeatedly praised his "sweetness", describing him as "the father of our English numbers", and linking his name with John Denham's as poets who brought in the Augustan age.
Connections
Waller married his first wife, Anne Banks, on 15 July 1631. She died in childbirth, and was buried on 23 October 1634, leaving a son, Robert, and a daughter, named either Elizabeth or Anne. Robert was tutored for a time by his father's friend, Thomas Hobbes, and later studied at Lincoln's Inn, like his father, but died sometime in the 1650s.
Edmund Waller married Mary Bracey in 1644, whose father was resident in Thame.
Mary and Edmund had thirteen children together. Among them were his son Edmund, MP for Amersham and Stephen, a doctor of law and Commissioner for the Union.