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See also:WALLER, See also:EDMUND (1606-1687) , See also:English poet, was the eldest son of See also:Robert Waller of Coleshill (then in Herts, now in See also:Buckinghamshire) and See also:Anne See also:Hampden, his wife. He was first See also:cousin to the celebrated patriot See also:John Hampden. He was See also:born on the 9th of See also:March 16o6, and baptized in the See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Amersham. See also:Early in his childhood his See also:father sold his houseat Coleshill and migrated to See also:Beaconsfield. Of Waller's early See also:education all we know is his own See also:account that he " was bred under several See also:ill, dull and ignorant schoolmasters, till he went to Mr See also:Dobson at Wickham, who was a See also:good schoolmaster and had been an See also:Eton See also:scholar." His father died in 1616, and the future poet's See also:mother, a See also:lady of rare force of See also:character, sent him to Eton and to See also:Cambridge. He was admitted a See also:fellow-commoner of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College on the 22nd of March 162o. He See also:left without a degree, and it is believed that in 1621, at the See also:age of only sixteen, he sat as member for Agmondesham (Amersham) in the last See also:parliament of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. See also:Clarendon says that Waller was " nursed in parliaments." In that of 1624 he represented See also:Ilchester, and in the first of See also:Charles I. Chipping See also:Wycombe. The first See also:act by which Waller distinguished himself, however, was his surreptitious See also:marriage with a wealthy See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward of the See also:Court of Aldermen, in 1631. He was brought before the See also:Star Chamber for this offence, and heavily fined. But his own See also:fortune was large, and all his See also:life Waller was a wealthy See also:man. After bearing him a son and a daughter at Beaconsfield, Mrs Waller died in 1634. It was about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that the poet was elected into See also:Falkland's " See also:Club."
It is supposed that about 1635 he met Lady Dorothy See also:Sidney, eldest daughter of the See also:earl of See also:Leicester, who was then eighteen years of age. He formed a romantic See also:passion for this girl, whom he celebrated under the name of Sacharissa. She rejected him, and married See also:Lord See also:Spencer in 1639. Disappointment, it is said, rendered Waller for a time insane, but this may well be doubted. He wrote, at all events, a See also:long, graceful and eminently sober See also:letter on the occasion of the See also:wedding to the See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride's See also:sister. In 164o Waller was once more M.P. for Amersham, and made certain speeches which attracted wide See also:attention; later, in the Long Parliament, he represented St Ives. Waller had hitherto supported the party of See also:Pym, but he now left him for the See also:group of Falkland and See also:Hyde. His speeches were much admired, and were separately printed; they are See also:academic exercises very carefully prepared. Clarendon says that Waller spoke " upon all occasions with See also:great sharpness and freedom." An extraordinary and obscure See also:conspiracy against Parliament, in favour of the king, which is known as " Waller's See also:Plot," occupied the See also:spring of 1643, but on the 3oth of May he and his See also:friends were arrested. In the terror of See also: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 See also:side of those of his companions who died for their opinions. Waller was called before the See also:bar of the See also:House in See also:July, and made an abject speech of recantation. His life was spared and he was committed to the See also:Tower, whence, on paying a See also:fine of £io,000, he was released and banished the See also:realm in See also:November 1643. He married a second wife, See also:Mary Bracey of Thame, and went over to See also:Calais, afterwards taking up his See also:residence at See also:Rouen. In 1645 the Poems of Waller were first published in See also:London, in three different See also:editions; there has been much discussion of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order and respective authority of these issues, but nothing is decidedly known. Many of the lyrics were already set to See also:music by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Lawes. In 1646 Waller travelled with See also:Evelyn in See also:Switzerland and See also:Italy. During the worst See also:period of the See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile Waller managed to " keep a table " for the Royalists in See also:Paris, although in order to do so he was obliged to sell his wife's jewels. At the See also:close of 1651 the House of See also:Commons revoked Waller's See also:sentence of banishment, and he was allowed to return to Beaconsfield, where he lived very quietly until the Restoration.
In 1655 he published A See also:Panegyric to my Lord See also:Protector, and was made a See also:Commissioner for See also:Trade a See also:month or two later. Ile followed this up, in 166o, by a poem To the King, upon his See also:Majesty's Happy Return. Being challenged by Charles II. to explain why this latter piece was inferior to the eulogy of See also:Cromwell, the poet smartly replied, " See also:Sir, we poets never succeed so well in See also:writing truth as in fiction." He entered the House of Commons again in 1661, as M.P. for See also:Hastings, and See also:Burnet has recorded that for the next See also:quarter of a See also:century " it was no House if Waller was not there." His sympathies were tolerant and kindly, and he constantly defended the Nonconformists. One
famous speech of Waller's was: " Let us look to our See also:Government, See also:fleet and trade, 'tis the best See also:advice the See also:oldest Parliament man among you can give you, and so See also:God bless you." After the See also:death of his second wife, in 1677, Waller retired to his house called See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall See also:Barn at Beaconsfield, and though he returned to London, he became more and more attached to the retirement of his See also:woods, " where, " he said, " he found the trees as See also:bare and withered as himself." In 1661 he had published his poem, St James' See also:Park; in 1664 he had collected his poetical See also: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 See also:posthumous additions made in 169o. Waller bought a cottage at Coleshill, where he was born, meaning to See also:die there; " a See also:stag," he said, " when he is hunted, and near spent, always returns See also:home." He actually died, however, at Hall Barn, with his See also:children and his grandchildren about him, on the 2rst of See also:October 1687, and was buried in woollen (in spite of his expressed wish), in the See also:churchyard of Beaconsfield.
Waller's lyrics were at one time admired to excess, but with the exception of " Go, lovely See also:Rose " and one or two others, they have greatly lost their See also:charm. He was almost destitute of imaginative invention, and his See also:fancy was See also:plain and trite. But he resolutely placed himself in the forefront of reaction against the violence and " conceit " into which the baser See also:kind of English See also:poetry was descending. A great See also:deal of discussion, some of it absurdly violent in See also:tone, has been expended on the question how far Waller was or was not the See also:pioneer in introducing the classical See also:couplet into English See also:verse. It is, of course, obvious that Waller could not " introduce " what had been invented, and admirably exemplified, by See also:Chaucer. But those who have pointed to smooth distichs employed by poets earlier than Waller have not given sufficient attention to the fact (exaggerated, doubtless, by critics arguing in the opposite See also:camp) that it was he who earliest made writing in the serried couplet the See also:habit and the See also:fashion. Waller was writing in the See also:regular heroic measure, afterwards carried to so high a perfection by See also:Dryden and See also:Pope, as early as 1623 (if not, as has been supposed, even in 1621).
The only See also:critical edition of Waller's Poetical Works is that edited, with a careful See also:biography, by G. See also:Thorn-See also:Drury, in 1893. (E.
End of Article: WALLER, EDMUND (1606-1687)
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