John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings
Author: Johannes Prinz
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13:
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Author: Keith Walker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-03-21
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1118651510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed ThePoems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholarNicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated editionof the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text of Lucina’s Rape, Rochester’sadaptation of Fletcher’s revenge tragedy Valentinian,in a text that readily identifies Rochester’s revisions Presents the poems in versions that were current duringRochester’s lifetime, allowing the reader to experience thepoems as Rochester’s contemporaries did Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the lasttwenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously wereunavailable for study
The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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.
Lord Rochester in the Restoration World
Author: Matthew C. Augustine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1107064392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by leading scholars explore the work, life and times of the notorious libertine poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Author: Germaine Greer
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 0746308884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten 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.
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure
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.
Rochester
Author: 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.
The Language of Daily Life in England (14001800)
Author: Arja Nurmi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009-04-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9027289727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study tackles a linguistic or social phenomenon, and approaches it with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, always embedded in the socio-historical context. The volume presents new information on linguistic variation and change, while evaluating and developing the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. The writers form one of the leading research teams in the field, and, as compilers of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, have an informed understanding of the data in all its depth. This volume will be of interest to scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics, but also e.g. social history. The approachable style of writing makes it also inviting for advanced students.
The Character of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Author: Stephen Benedict Humphrey
Publisher:
Published: 1936
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13:
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Author: Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-10-07
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0141915838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three - 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 - from the bawdy self-portrait in 'The Maimed Debauchee' and the tender passion of 'Absent from thee I languish still' to the comic world-weariness of 'Upon Nothing' and 'A Satyr against Mankind', which mocks human follies. 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.
