Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097139
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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.
The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097139
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097139
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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.
The Works of Ophra Behn
Author: Montague Summers
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375236842X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Works of Ophra Behn by Montague Summers
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375236842X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Works of Ophra Behn by Montague Summers
Collected Works of John Wilmot
Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings
Author: Johannes Prinz
Publisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Wither to Prior
Author: Grolier Club
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Works of John Dryden, Volume IV
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520021207
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1693 to 1696. Mostly these are translations of Roman poetry, specifically the satires of Juvenal and Persius, sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Amours, and Art of Love, passages from Homer and Virgil--as well as some elegies of contemporaries composed in his later years. Also included is Dryden's influential essay on the nature of satire entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire."
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520021207
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1693 to 1696. Mostly these are translations of Roman poetry, specifically the satires of Juvenal and Persius, sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Amours, and Art of Love, passages from Homer and Virgil--as well as some elegies of contemporaries composed in his later years. Also included is Dryden's influential essay on the nature of satire entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire."
A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books Offered for Sale
Author: Pickering & Chatto
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Langland to Wither
Author: Grolier Club
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Con to Edw
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description