Abstract
The poet Edmund Waller (1606-87) is well known as a practitioner of the heroic couplet and forerunner of the Augustan age. This essay reverses the forward trajectory of typical literary historical treatments of the poet in order to consider instead how Waller, early in his career, looks back to the verse of Edmund Spenser. It begins by examining the Spenserian allusions in Waller's maritime epyllion, "The Battle of the Summer Islands," before offering a more expansive account of the political and literary ties that connect not only Waller to Spenser, but the epyllion to the romance epic.
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