| Description |
1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Contents |
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on This Edition; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Further Reading; Abbreviations; 1 Juvenilia; 2 Love Poems; 3 Translations; 4 Prologues and Epilogues; 5 Satires and Lampoons; 6 Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope; 7 Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d'esprit, etc.; 8 Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester; 9 Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian; Index of Proper Names; Index of Titles and First Lines |
| Summary |
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 revisionsPresents the poems in versions that were current during Rochester's lifetime, allowing the reader to experience the poems as Rochester's contemporaries did<l |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.
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Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680. |
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English literature.
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English literature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walker, Keith, 1936- editor.
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Fisher, Nicholas, editor
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| LC no. |
2009032171 |
| ISBN |
1118519361 |
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9781118519363 |
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1118651510 |
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9781118651513 |
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1282549766 |
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9781282549760 |
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9786612549762 |
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6612549769 |
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1444318993 |
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9781444318999 |
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1444319000 |
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9781444319002 |
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