Timeline Tuesday 21 October 1687

Events on Tuesday 21 October 1687 1

• 1606 – 1687 Edmund Waller (1606-1687) Died 21 October 1687, aged 81 Edmund Waller was an English poet and politician known for his smooth, measured verse, which influenced the development of the heroic couplet. He sat in Parliament at various times under Charles I, the Commonwealth, and Charles II, surviving the era's political upheavals through shifting allegiances. His collected poems were widely read well into the eighteenth century.