John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
The Poems and Lucina's Rape
Published on 16. March 2010
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-4051-8779-4 (ISBN)
Description
Building 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
Reviews / Votes
"For scholars of seventeenth-century libertine culture and poetry lovers with a penchant for old-school smut, Rochester's verse holds abiding interest. Walker's and Fisher's edition makes these verses accessible to a broad audience, their exhaustive annotations and introductory material offering contextual information invaluable to readers new to this author, or indeed to the seventeenth century." (M/C Reviews, October 2010)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-8779-4 (9781405187794)
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Persons
Nicholas Fisher is a visiting research fellow at theInstitute of English Studies, University of London. He is theco-editor of a performing edition of the early settings ofRochester s songs, Songs to Phillis (1999), and itsexpanded version, Singing to Phillis: Settings of Poems by theEarl of Rochester 1647-1680 (2009). He is also the editor of acollection of essays on Rochester, That Second Bottle(2000).
Content
Notes on This Edition. Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. Chronology. Introduction. Further reading. Abbreviations. POEMS. Love Poems. Translations. Prologues and Epilogues. Satires and Lampoons. Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope. Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d Esprit, etc. Poems less securely ascribed to Rochester. LUCINA S RAPE OR THE TRAGEDY OF VALLENTINIAN. Introduction. Text. Index of Titles and First Lines.