Description
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 revisions
- Presents the poems in versions that were current during Rochester’s lifetime, allowing the reader to experience the poems as Rochester’s contemporaries did
- Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the last twenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously were unavailable for study
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Note on This Edition ix
Acknowledgments x
Chronology xii
Introduction xvii
Further Reading xxviii
Abbreviations xxxii
Poems
Juvenilia 1
Love Poems 5
Translations 56
Prologues and Epilogues 61
Satires and Lampoons 68
Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope 111
Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d’esprit, etc. 131
Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester 138
Lucina’s Rape or the Tragedy of Vallentinian 161
Index of Proper Names 253
Index of Titles and First Lines 257
