1680
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Edmund Waller
Earl of Rochester, in "An Allusion to Horace" Poems on Several Occasions (1680) 42.
Commentary for
Edmund Waller:
1655 ca.: Charles Cotton
1667: Sir William Temple
1670 ca.: Lord Clarendon
1673: Richard Flecknoe
1678: Thomas Rymer
1680: Earl of Rochester
1683: John Dryden
1688: Aphra Behn
1688: Bevil Higgons
1688: Sir John Cotton
1688: Thomas Rymer
1693: Anonymous
1693: J. Talbot
1693: Anonymous
1694: Joseph Addison
1699: Charles Gildon
1700: Samuel Cobb
1700 ca.: John Hughes
1701: Anonymous
1710 ca.: Gilbert Burnet
1712: Bezaleel Morrice
1713: Rev. Henry Felton
1720: Giles Jacob
1721: Judith Cowper Madan
1721: Mr. B.
1721: Mr. Johnson
1728: James Ralph
1728: Jane Brereton
1735: Mary Barber
1739: Anonymous
1744: Dr. Mark Akenside
1746: Edmund Burke
1761: Rev. Charles Churchill
1769: Daniel Hayes
1774: Rev. Robert Potter
1776: Oliver Goldsmith
1776: John Nichols
1782: Rev. Joseph Warton
1787: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1789: Philip Neve
1789: Edmond Malone
1789: Anonymous
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1802: George Dyer
1803: George Dyer
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1807: Robert Southey
1812: William Henry Ireland
1818: William Hazlitt
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1826: Richard Ryan
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1842: C. H. Timperley
1851: Leigh Hunt
1880: Edmund Gosse
1882: Epes Sargent
Commentary by
Earl of Rochester:
1680: John Dryden
1680: Thomas Flatman
1680: Edward Howard
1680: Nathaniel Lee
1680: Sir Charles Sedley
1680: Thomas Shadwell
1680: Edmund Waller
Waller, by Nature, for the Bays design'd,
With force, and fire, and fancy unconfin'd,
In Panegyricks, does excell Mankind.
He best can turn, enforce, and soften things,
To praise great Conquerors, or to flatter Kings.