Wiseman, Jane. “A Fairy Tale, Inscrib’d, to the Honourable Mrs. W— With Other Poems (1917)”. Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1740, edited by William Christmas, Pickering and Chatto, 2003, pp. 34-46.
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Edmund Waller
Standard Name: Waller, Edmund
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland | Dorothy Sidney had a number of suitors before her first marriage. Most famously, the poet Edmund Waller
made her the subject of his love-poems, giving her the name Sacharissa. It is uncertain how serious... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Wiseman | Her poems, full of character and ingenuity, spring from social interchange. The title piece is a longish, narrative, occasional poem, Sent with a Pair of China Basons |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | As a child Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx. viii The Life of Corinna, purporting to be written by a female friend, which prefaces the first volume of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | The protagonist of Idalia bears out the author's opening pronouncement that most of people's troubles and suffering are self-caus'd, Haywood, Eliza. Idalia. D. Browne, Jr., W. Chetwood, and S. Chapman, 1723. 1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Hutchinson | This satirical eulogy uses the method of line-by-line contradiction of Waller
's poem in the manner used by Lady Mary Wroth
in Railing Rimes Returned upon the Author about thirty years before. It skewers Cromwell |
| Literary responses | Katherine Philips | Pompey's many admirers included Edmund Waller
, who had himself been working on a translation of the same play, and the highly talented Philo-Philippa. Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68. 17-18 Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 204ff |
| Author summary | Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland | While Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland
, has been known historically as the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller
's poetry, she was also a respected and memorable letter writer. Most of her surviving letters date from her... |
| Publishing | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
's Minerva Press
novel Clermont, A Tale, a four-volume gothic with a title-page quotation from Edmund Waller
, was advertised as newly published. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 759 Mandal, Anthony. “Revising the Radcliffean Model: Regina Maria Roches Clermont and Jane Austens Northanger AbbeyCardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 3 , Sept. 1999. |
| Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Among the accompanying poems was The Picture Gallery at Penshurst, which again focuses on the portrait of a woman, Lady Dorothea Sidney, later Lady Sunderland
, the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller
's love poetry... |
| Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Fell | MF
composed one of the last of her writings included in her collected works: To King William (personally delivered to the king by Susan Ingram
); the others were To Edmund Waller, and An... |
| Textual Production | Anne Wharton | In their edition of AW
, Germaine Greer
and Selina Hastings
expressed the opinion that further poems by her were likely to surface. This happened within less than a decade. A newly discovered manuscript of... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | The parody To Mr Waller
upon his panegirique to the Lord Protector is almost certainly by LH
; the ascription rests on Clarendon
's annotation. Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction, Chronology”. Order and Disorder, edited by David Norbrook, Blackwell, 2001, p. i - lviii. x Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp. 1-20. 6 The manuscript spells Mr with a following colon.... |
Timeline
25 September 1660: Samuel Pepys drank his first cup of tee (a...
Building item
25 September 1660
Samuel Pepys
drank his first cup of tee [sic] (a China drink), which had been arriving in England via Holland for a few years. (Coffee had been established in England for a decade or so...
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