Author:Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Works
- A Panegyrick to My Lord Protector (1655), also known as Panegyric to Cromwell
- The Passion of Dido for Æneas (1658), co-authored with Sidney Godolphin
- Upon the Late Storm, and Death of the Late Usurper Oliver Cromwel (1659)
- To the King upon His Majesty's Happy Return (1660)
- To my Lady Morton,’ &c (1661)
- A Poem on St. James's Park (1661)
- Upon Her Majesty's New Buildings at Somerset House (1665)
- Instructions to a Painter (1666)
- Of the Lady Mary (1677)
- A Poem on the Present Assembling of the Parliament, March the 6th, 1678 (1679)
- Divine Poems (1685)
- The Maid's Tragedy Altered, with some other pieces not before printed in the several editions of his poems (1690) (transcription project)
- The tryal of John Hambden, Esq. (1719) IA
- The case of the Hanover forces in the pay of Great-Britain (1743), co-authored with Philip Dormer Stanhope IA
- The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq.: In Verse and Prose (1768) IA
- Poetical works of Edmund Waller (1777), edited by Robert Bell IA 1, IA 2
Individual poems
- "Go lovely Rose!"
- "Of this Translation, and of the Use of Poetry" [A panegyric to Wentworth Dillon's translation of Horace's Ars Poetica
- "On a Girdle"
- "On the Marriage of the Lady Mary with the Prince of Orange"
- "To Mr. G. Granville, on his Verses to the King"
- "To Sr Will. D'Avenant, Upon His Two First Books of Gondibert, Finish'd before his Voyage to America", in Gondibert: An Heroick Poem (1651), by William Davenant
- "To the young Lady Lucy Sydney"
Translation
- Pompey the Great: a tragedy (1664), an adaptation and translation of Pierre Corneille's La mort de Pompée (1644), together with Charles Sackville (later 6th Earl of Dorset), Sidney Godolphin, Sir Charles Sedley, and Sir Edward Filmer. Internet Archive identifier: pompeygreattrage00corn
Works about Waller
- "Waller" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.316-395.
- "Edmund Waller" in Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain: English poets, Volume 1 (1839)
- "Waller, Edmund," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Waller, Edmund," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Waller, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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