1st Edition
The Debt to Pleasure John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: In the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
By John Wilmot
Copyright 2002
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
INTRODUCTION 1 'Those Shining Parts...Began to Show Themselves' 2 'Many Wild and Unaccountable Things' 3 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' 4 'The Right Vein' 5 'A Man Half in the Grave 6 Epilogue (1685) NOTES
Biography
John Wilmot