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
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor
Nicholas Fisher is an associate research fellow at the
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University
of London. He has co-edited a performing edition of the early
settings of Rochester’s songs, Songs to Phillis
(1999), and has edited a collection of essays on the poet, That
Second Bottle (2000). He is currently completing a
bibliography of the printed editions of Rochester’s work.
Keith Walker taught at University College, London from 1966
to 1996. Over the course of his notable career he produced
distinguished editions of the works of many of the major
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century writers, including The Poems of
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), on which this new edition is
based.
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