Author : John Wilmot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000101266
Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and in the words of those who loved and loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with startling, ribald and riotous clarity.
Author : James William Johnson
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580461702
A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.
Author : Johannes Prinz
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Poets, English
ISBN :
Author : Gilbert Burnet
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 1810
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300097139
John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedies, he lived a full but short life, dying in 1680 (with a dramatic deathbed renunciation of his atheism) at the age of thirty-three. This edition of Rochester's poetry, brilliantly annotated and introduced by David M. Vieth, has been a classic work for decades. Rochester had many admirers: Graham Greene wrote Lord Rochester's Monkey; Daniel Defoe quoted him often; Tennyson recited his poems; Voltaire admired his satire for 'energy and fire'; Goethe could quote him in English; and Hazlitt said that 'his verses cut and sparkle like diamonds' and that 'his contempt for everything that others respect almost amounts to sublimity'. Book jacket.
Author : Keith Walker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118438795
Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text of Lucina’s Rape, Rochester’s adaptation of Fletcher’s revenge tragedy Valentinian, in a text that readily identifies Rochester’s revisions Presents the poems in versions that were current during Rochester’s lifetime, allowing the reader to experience the poems as Rochester’s contemporaries did Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the last twenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously were unavailable for study
Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0140424598
The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three. He was described by Samuel Johnson as having "blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness". Rochester was also one of the wittiest and most complex poets of the seventeenth century, writing comic verse, scurrilous satires and highly explicit erotica. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humour and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.--From publisher description.
Author : Maggie Kilgour
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0199589437
Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.
Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0746308884
Written by a renowned scholar and broadcaster, this account of Wilmot's work strives to place it in its socio-political context and describe the way the poet and his work were co-opted after his premature death to serve contrasting political agendas.
