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Waller, Edmund
Waller, Edmund: 1606-87, English poet. He studied at Eton and Cambridge and became a prominent speaker in Parliament at a young age. He married twice (1631 and 1644), but his early poems are addressed to „Sacharissa,” Lady Dorothy Sidney, who refused to marry him. Although at first an antiroyalist, he later supported Charles I against Parliament and conceived „Waller's plot” (1643) to secure the city of London for the king. The plot was discovered, and Waller was fined and banish [eng]
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