WorkEdmund Waller

“Of the Last Verses in the Book," in Divine Poems”

"Of the Last Verses in the Book," in Divine Poems (1685/1686) Inferred

Edmund Waller (1606–1687) · 1685/1686

InferredQuoted via Forster's Life of Strafford (see R-20), where Forster attributes them to 'a then living poet.' The lines 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made' are verbatim from Edmund Waller, 'Of the Last Verses in the Book' (1686).

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Quoted via Forster's Life of Strafford (see R-20), where Forster attributes them to 'a then living poet.' The lines 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made' are verbatim from Edmund Waller, 'Of the Last Verses in the Book' (1686).