BIOGRAPHY

Drury, G. Thorn. Introduction to The Poems of Edmund Waller, edited by G. Thorn Drury, vol. 1, pp. xiii-lxxiv. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1893.

Discusses Waller's life and works.

Skelton, Robin. “The Cavalier Poets: Edmund Waller (1606-1687).” In Poets: American and British, edited by Ian Scott-Kilvert, George Stade, Leonard Unger, and A. Walton Litz, vol. 1, pp. 306-10. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

A brief biographical overview.

CRITICISM

A review of Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. North American Review 91, no. 2 (October 1860): 376-84.

Negative review of a collection of Waller's poetry.

Wikelund, Philip R. “Edmund Waller's Fitt of Versifying: Deductions from a Holograph Fragment, Folger MS. X.d.309.” Philogical Quarterly 49, no. 1 (January 1970): 68-91.

Analyzes changes Waller made to certain manuscripts.

Additional coverage of Waller's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 126.