Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller, FRS (March 1606 – October 21, 1687) was an English poet and politician who served in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679. Waller, who was educated at Eton and King's College in Cambridge, became an early member of the opposition at a young age and was among the first political figures in Cambridge.
He married a London heiress who died in 1634 in 1631.
He became a Royalist in the 1640s, and in 1643, he was a king of a plot to capture London for Charles I. He was arrested for this, but he avoided the death penalty by betraying his coworkers and paying lavish bribes.
Rather, he was arrested, fined, and banned from entering the country.
In 1651, he established his peace with the Commonwealth government, returned to England, and was restored to England at the Restoration. After the death of his first wife, he unsuccessfully tried Lady Dorothy Sidney, the 'Sacharissa' of his poems; he married Mary Bracey as his second wife in 1644.
Waller was a precocious poet, and he wrote "His Majesty's Escape at St. Andere" (Prince Charles' escape from shipwreck in Santander) in heroic couplets, one of the first examples of a style that flourished in English poetry for two centuries.
His poem, although much of it was devoted to praise of Sacharissa, Lady Carlisle, and others, is of a polished simplicity; John Dryden referred to him as "the father of our English numbers" and compared his name to John Denham's as poets who arrived in the Augustan age.
Waller rejected Metaphysical poetry's dense intellectual text, favouring a generalizing argument, quick associative change, and urbane sociological comment.
He paved the way for the rise of the heroic couplet, which by the end of the nineteenth century was the most popular form of English poetry, with a strong emphasis on concrete phrasing through inversion and balance. "On a Girdle" and "Go, lovely rose" are among his early poems; "Instructions to a Painter" (1666, on the Battle of Solebay) and "Of the Last Verses in the Book" feature the Soul's Dark Cottage, battered and decayed, gives the popular line, "The Soul's Dark Cottage, battered and decayed, let's time hath made a new light through chinks His Poems appeared in 1645, and Divine Poems in 1685.
His opus includes ode to both Oliver Cromwell (1655) and Charles II (1660).
Career
Waller attended Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, followed by Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He left without a degree, and Lincoln's Inn, as was normal in this period, took a course in law, graduating in 1622. He was first elected in 1624 as the youngest member of the Commons and then for Chepping Wycombe in 1626. He inherited an estate worth up to £2,500 a year on his first anniversary in Buckinghamshire, making him one of Buckinghamshire's richest men.
He was returned to Amersham in 1628 and had virtually no influence on Parliament until it was dissolved in 1629, when Charles I instituted eleven years of Personal Rule. He became friends with George Morley, later Bishop of Worcester, who supervised his reading and gave advice on writing, although Waller presumably paid his debts. Waller was also introduced by Morley to Lucius Cary, the second Viscount Falkland; he was also influenced by Falkland's moderation and compassion.
Biographers dated his earliest writing to the 1620s, largely because they commemorate events of the time, but modern scholars argue that they were actually published in the mid to late 1630s in an effort to secure a career in law. Many of Charles' works, as well as Charles himself, are addressed to descendants of the extended Percy family, such as the Countess of Sunderland and the Earl of Northumberland. At the age of 30, Hyde became a writer, "when other Men give over writing Verses."
Waller was re-elected for Amersham and then for St Ives in November when Charles recalled Parliament in April 1640 to authorize taxes for the Bishops' Wars. Despite general consensus that Charles' attempts to rule without Parliament had gone too far, moderates like Hyde and Falkland were also concerned about shifting the balance in the other direction. Waller was charged with the impeachment of Sir Francis Crawley, one of the Ship Money judges, but he confirmed his Royalist sympathies by voting against the execution of Strafford in April 1641 and the removal of bishops from the House of Lords.
Unlike Hyde and Falkland, who joined the king in August 1642, Waller stayed in London, apparently with Charles' permission, where he continued to help moderates like Denzil Holles who needed a negotiated peace. A plot was unearthed in May 1643 by Waller, brother-in-law Nathaniel Tomkins, and wealthy merchant Richard Chaloner; what seemed to be a plot to coerce Parliament into negotiations by withholding taxes turned into a deadly plot intended to encourage the Royalist army to take power of London.
After Waller was arrested, he made a complete confession involving a number of his co-conspirators; he avoided the death penalty by allegedly paying bribes, although Chaloner and Tomkins were executed on July 5th, 1643. Many moderates were forced to abandon support for a peace agreement in order to prevent suspicion of involvement and reaffirm their support for military action. Waller was sentenced to £10,000 and refused to go into exile in November 1644, with his new wife Mary; however, the case caused long-term damage to his image.
Waller and John Evelyn travelled through Switzerland and Italy with the understanding that money sent to him by his mother was used in some comfort. The Rump Parliament presumably enabled him to return home in January 1652 with the help of his relatives, Cromwell and Scrope. He had good relations with Cromwell, calling him a 'Panegyrick' in 1655 and later supporting plans to make him king; in a poem written after the Spanish treasure fleet was captured in 1658, he suggested that "let the wealthy ore melt down with the state fixed by making him a king."
When Charles II returned to the throne after the Restoration, Waller commemorated the occasion by writing To the King, a 1660 tribute to his Majesty's Happy Return. Many people were trying to reconcile past support for the Commonwealth with the restoration of monarchy, but Samuel Johnson's book "a prostituted mind may keep the glam of wit, but has lost the dignity of virtue." He was elected to the Cavalier Parliament in 1661 as MP for Hastings, but does not appear to have contributed papers himself. He was instrumental in Clarendon's impeachment and exile in 1667 and later served in a variety of capacities under the Cabal Ministry.
Originally seen as a promoter of the Court, after 1674, he gained a reputation for liberty and was now known as one of the best speakers in the Commons. He was also an advocate for religious tolerance, particularly among Protestant Nonconformists, who were still convinced of the Popish Plot in 1678 and abstinated from active politics during the 1679 to 1681 Exclusion Crisis. On the accession of James II, he was elected for Saltash in 1685.
He wrote two poems urging peace and national unity, but James suspended Parliament in November after it refused to pass his Declaration of Indulgence. Waller died in St James's on October 21, 1687, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield, where his tomb is now grade II* listed.
