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Total number of records: 30

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Indexes28
Books and printed items2

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Brotherton Collection30
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse28
English Literature2

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love2
sermons, english2

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Waller, Edmund30
Atwood, William2
Atwood, William (1705)2
Mr Waller2
Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)2
Wharton, Anne2
Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685)2
Young, Edward (1705)2
Waller Ap. Poems, P.861
Waller Ap. Poems, P.921

Title: Of love

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: On how love makes its male victims servile and fearful in the presence of

their beloveds, whereas women really need to be dominated by men

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Title: Loves farewel

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: On how his determination to love no longer was overturned by the effect of a

particular beautiful young woman

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The idea of Christian love

Young, Edward (1705); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Atwood, William (1705)

1688

The paraphrase of Waller's "Of divine love" is printed in alternate stanzas with the original. Mrs. Wharton's verses were intended to come at end: cf. printer's note p. xxxii. The translation and ...

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The idea of Christian love

Young, Edward (1705); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Atwood, William (1705)

1688

The paraphrase of Waller's "Of divine love" is printed in alternate stanzas with the original. Mrs. Wharton's verses were intended to come at end: cf. printer's note p. xxxii. The translation and ...

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Title: An apology for having loved before

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: Explaining that it is natural to love the first congenial person encountered,

but asserting that subsequent, experienced love is more important

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Title: To a friend of the different success of their loves

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: Contrasting a friend's success in love with his own failure, commenting on

love's unpredictiblity and the unhappiness it brings

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Title: To Philis

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: Love poem, urging present enjoyment in the face of the transience of human

youth, beauty and love

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Title: Wooing

Author: Waller, Edmund

Attribution: Waller to Phyllis, Poems, p.75

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 61

Contents: Love poem, urging present enjoyment in the face of the

transience of human youth, beauty and love

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Title: At Penshurst

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: Complaint to Lady Dorothy Sidney (later Lady Spencer and Countess of

Sunderland) of her rejection of his love, contrasting it with the aptitude for

love shown by her great-uncle Sir Philip Sidney and her mother

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Title: On a girdle

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: Joyful love poem, reflecting on his beloved's girdle and what it encompasses

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Title: On a girdle

Author: Waller, Edmund

Attribution: Waller ap. Poems, p.92

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 61

Contents: Joyful love poem, reflecting on his beloved's girdle and what it

encompasses

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Title: A copy of verses written by Mr Waller above forty years since and never printed in any edition of his poems

Author: Waller, Edmund

Attribution: Mr Waller

Date(s): 1652 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 94

Contents: On his love for the beautiful Chloris, despite being engaged to another woman

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