A Rochester Ramble
Author: Donovan A. Shilling
Publisher: Pancoast Publishing
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Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0982109008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Finger Lakes region written from the perspective of spirits of historical figures.
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Author: Donovan A. Shilling
Publisher: Pancoast Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0982109008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Finger Lakes region written from the perspective of spirits of historical figures.
Author: Donovan A. Shilling
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marianne Thormählen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-06-25
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521440424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new study of the notorious Restoration rake-poet, set in his intellectual context.
Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300097139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn 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: Matthew C. Augustine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1316299333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long been considered an embodiment of the Restoration era. This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars focuses new attention on, and brings fresh perspectives to, the writings of Lord Rochester. Particular consideration is given to the political force and social identity of Rochester's work, to the worlds - courtly and theatrical, urban and suburban - from which Rochester's poetry emerged and which it discloses, and not least to the unsettling aesthetic power of Rochester's writing. The singularity of Rochester's voice - his 'matchless wit' - has been widely recognised; this book encourages the continued appreciation of all the ways in which Rochester reveals the layered and promiscuous character of literary projects throughout the whole of a brilliant, abrasive, and miscellaneous age.
Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Farley-Hills
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rose A. Zimbardo
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-17
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0813158583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of "zero point" -- the moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to construct itself. Zimbardo demonstrates that the Restoration marked both the collapse of the Renaissance order and the birth of modernism (with its new conceptions of self, nation, gender, language, logic, subjectivity, and reality). Using satire as the site for her investigation, Zimbardo examines works by Rochester, Oldham, Wycherley, and the early Swift for examples of Restoration deconstructive satire that, she argues, measure the collapse of Renaissance epistemology. Constructive satire, as exemplified in works by Dryden, has at its discursive center the "I" from which all order arises to be projected to the external world. No other book treats Restoration culture or satire in this way.
Author: Larry D Carver
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-06-18
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1526173662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester’s poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester criticism, the relationship of the poet to his speaker. It also reveals that Rochester’s work clusters about a central theme, the pursuit of pleasure, a pursuit motivated by a courtship of purity that grew out of Rochester’s Christian and God-fearing upbringing. This rhetoric of courtship, in turn, reveals the unity of Rochester’s work as the courtier and his various personae try to persuade his audiences, secular and divine, of his worth.
Author: Jason Scott-Warren
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2005-10-07
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 074562751X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding comprehensive background material on the contexts in which early modern literary texts were produced and consumed, this work unlocks the distinctive social practices, economic structures and modes of behaviour that give these texts their meaning.