Poetry Books by John Wilmot

John Wilmot Books, John Wilmot poetry book A Concordance to The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Authors: John F. Moehlmann
Publisher: Whitston Publishing Company Incorporated
Published Date: 1979
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Moehlmann provides evidence that the neglected Rochester was in fact a first-rate poet of the Restoration period.

John Wilmot Books, John Wilmot poetry book Complete Poems and Plays Authors: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, Paddy Lyons
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published Date: 1993
Categories: English drama
Containing some of the best Russian poetry ever written,this novel tells the story of Tatyna Larina who is rejected by Eugine Onegin,only to spurn his later advances when she is a society princess.

John Wilmot Books, John Wilmot poetry book The Debt to Pleasure Authors: John Wilmot, John Adlard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published Date: 2002
Categories: Literary Criticism
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.

John Wilmot Books, John Wilmot poetry book The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Authors: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published Date: 2002
Categories: Poetry
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.



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