John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester : the poems and Lucina's rape

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester : the poems and Lucina's rape

edited by Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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The poems and Lucina's rape

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Building on the strength of Keith Walker s acclaimed ThePoems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholarNicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated editionof the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. * Includes the text of Lucina s Rape, Rochester sadaptation of Fletcher s revenge tragedy Valentinian,in a text that readily identifies Rochester s revisions * Presents the poems in versions that were current duringRochester s lifetime, allowing the reader to experience thepoems as Rochester s contemporaries did * Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the lasttwenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously wereunavailable for study

Table of Contents

Notes on This Edition. Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. Chronology. Introduction. Further reading. Abbreviations. POEMS. Love Poems. Translations. Prologues and Epilogues. Satires and Lampoons. Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope. Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d Esprit, etc. Poems less securely ascribed to Rochester. LUCINA S RAPE OR THE TRAGEDY OF VALLENTINIAN. Introduction. Text. Index of Titles and First Lines.

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  • NCID
    BB01867376
  • ISBN
    • 9781405187794
  • LCCN
    2009032171
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chichester
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxiii, 260 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
  • Classification
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