John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Reviews / Votes

"At last, an indispensable edition of Rochester for allscholars and teachers of the Restoration period. The dramaValentinian/Lucina's Rape is literally a revelation, overone thousand lines of authentic Rochester now visible in boldtype."--James Grantham Turner, Universityof California, Berkeley "Fisher's edition of Rochester is not only a fittingand loving tribute to two great Rochesterians, Keith Walker andHarold Love: it is a considerable work of independent scholarship,providing an unmodernized text fully informed by the mostauthoritative manuscript sources and intelligently annotated. Adelicious bonus is the inclusion of Rochester's version ofJohn Fletcher's tragedy Valentinian entitledLucina's Rape. Rochester is one of the mostinfluential writers not to have appeared extensively in print inhis own lifetime. This important edition enables us to understandthat influence and evaluate it anew."--BreanHammond, University of Nottingham "For scholars of seventeenth-century libertine culture andpoetry lovers with a penchant for old-school smut, Rochester'sverse holds abiding interest. Walker's and Fisher's edition makesthese verses accessible to a broad audience, their exhaustiveannotations and introductory material offering contextualinformation invaluable to readers new to this author, or indeed tothe seventeenth century." (M/C Reviews, October 2010)