Download or read book Blazing Star written by Alexander Larman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Wilmot Earl of Rochester written by Johannes Prinz and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Profane Wit written by James William Johnson and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Wilmot Earl of Rochester his life and writings with his Lordship s private correspondance various other documents and a bibliography of his works and of the literature on him written by Johannes Prinz and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings written by Johannes Prinz and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Debt to Pleasure written by John Wilmot and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings written by Johannes Prinz and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Wilmot Earl of Rochester written by Keith Walker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings by Johannes Prinz written by Johannes Prinz and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings written by Johannes Prinz and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Complete Poems of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester written by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Some Account of the Life and Death of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester who Died July 26 1680 written by Gilbert Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Some Account of the Life and Death of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester written by Gilbert Burnet and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book Passion For Living written by R E Pritchard and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Works written by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
