Six Centuries of English Poetry
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" At the Restoration he eagerlydeclared allegiance to Charles II. , and wrote a congratulatory ode onthat monarch's return. He became a court favorite, noted for his wit, was made provost of Eton, and returned to his old place in Parliament. He died October 21, 1687. The first edition of his poems was publishedin 1645, and from that time to the close of the seventeenth century hewas quite generally regarded as the greatest of English poets. At thepresent time there are few writers so little con...sidered as he.
Waller may be regarded as the founder of the classical school of Englishpoetry, in which Dryden and Pope excelled, and which remained in theascendency for more than a century after his death. "The excellence anddignity of rhyme, " says Dryden, "were never fully known till Mr. Wallertaught it; he first made writing easily an art, first showed us toconclude the sense, most commonly, in distichs, which in the verse ofthose before him runs on for so many lines together, that the reader isout of breath to overtake it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" At the Restoration he eagerlydeclared allegiance to Charles II. , and wrote a congratulatory ode onthat monarch's return. He became a court favorite, noted for his wit, was made provost of Eton, and returned to his old place in Parliament. He died October 21, 1687. The first edition of his poems was publishedin 1645, and from that time to the close of the seventeenth century hewas quite generally regarded as the greatest of English poets. At thepresent time there are few writers so little con...sidered as he.
Waller may be regarded as the founder of the classical school of Englishpoetry, in which Dryden and Pope excelled, and which remained in theascendency for more than a century after his death. "The excellence anddignity of rhyme, " says Dryden, "were never fully known till Mr. Wallertaught it; he first made writing easily an art, first showed us toconclude the sense, most commonly, in distichs, which in the verse ofthose before him runs on for so many lines together, that the reader isout of breath to overtake it.
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