John Wilmot Earl Of Rochester

Author : Alexander Larman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781852644

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Blazing Star by Alexander Larman Pdf

He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'. He went to Oxford University at the age of 12 He slept with his first prostitute at 13 He was an alcoholic by 14 He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18 He was acclaimed a war hero at 19 He died of syphilis at the age of 33 He was English history's first celebrity. He was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Poet, dandy and libertine. BLAZING STAR is a compelling portrait of a remarkable and complex man, and of a cultural golden age that often spilled over into depravity.

Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300097131

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The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Pdf

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. Rochester had many admirers: Graham Greene wrote Lord Rochester's Monkey; Daniel Defoe quoted him often; Tennyson recited his poems; Voltaire admired his satire for 'energy and fire'; Goethe could quote him in English; and Hazlitt said that 'his verses cut and sparkle like diamonds' and that 'his contempt for everything that others respect almost amounts to sublimity'. Book jacket.

Author : James William Johnson
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580461700

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A Profane Wit by James William Johnson Pdf

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.

Author : John Wilmot
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0359032060

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The Farce of Sodom: Or the Quintessence of Debauchery by John Wilmot Pdf

The Farce of Sodom is a sexually explicit play which satirizes the reign of Charles II of England during the Restoration of the English monarchy. Explicit and uncompromising in tone, this send-up of the Royal Court grossly exaggerates the rumors surrounding the court of the king. We witness the homosexual King Bolloximian ban ordinary sexual intercourse in his kingdom, decreeing that only anal intercourse be permitted among the entire population. The excesses of the wealthy are shown in a sequence of erotic acts in a court preoccupied with luxuriating in debauchery. Eventually the nature of the acts the wealthy are consigned to perform upsets enough members of the court, and King Bolloximian is violently deposed. He and his closest companions are then consigned to hellfire. Banned for centuries, during recent years The Farce of Sodom has attracted renewed appreciation, with a version of the drama staged at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140101543

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Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene Pdf

Author : Keith Walker,Nicholas Fisher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118438794

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Keith Walker,Nicholas Fisher Pdf

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

Author : John Wilmot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000101263

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The Debt to Pleasure by John Wilmot Pdf

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.

Author : John, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1495946606

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Selected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by John, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Pdf

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is considered to be one of the most complex poets of the 17th century. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humor and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.

Author : Maggie Kilgour
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199589432

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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid by Maggie Kilgour Pdf

Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.

Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780140424591

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Selected Works by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Pdf

The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three. He was described by Samuel Johnson as having "blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness". Rochester was also one of the wittiest and most complex poets of the seventeenth century, writing comic verse, scurrilous satires and highly explicit erotica. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humour and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.--From publisher description.

Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : English poetry
ISBN : IND:39000003766487

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Collected Works of John Wilmot by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Pdf

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521440424

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Rochester by Marianne Thormählen Pdf

A major new study of the notorious Restoration rake-poet, set in his intellectual context.

Author : J. Prinz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:940288111

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by J. Prinz Pdf

Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106016141647

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The Complete Works by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Pdf

Author : R E Pritchard
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780718840662

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Passion For Living by R E Pritchard Pdf

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), has long been notorious as one of the most entertaining, extravagant and scandalous members of Charles II's court. He was also the most brilliant, witty and insightful satirist and lyric poet of his time, limited only by his early death caused by venereal disease and alcoholism. Passion for Living provides a full discussion of his life and writings, set in the context of his Times - the licentious court of Charles II and his mistresses, the Dutch warsand the so-called Popish Plot - together with close readings and analyses of his love lyrics, bawdy songs and shrewd satires, related to the life of his contemporaries, such as Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Butler and John Dryden. This informative and readable study will be of interest to both the general reader and the student.