Author: Alexander Larman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781852642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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.
Blazing Star
Author: Alexander Larman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781852642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781852642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Author: Johannes Prinz
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ISBN: 9780403011650
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Languages : en
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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
Author: Johannes Prinz
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Languages : en
Pages : 460
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John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings
Author: Johannes Prinz
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Debt to Pleasure
Author: John Wilmot
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000101266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000101266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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.
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
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Pages : 460
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Pages : 460
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John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, His Life and Writings
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, His Life and Writings... by Johannes Prinz...
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Pages : 460
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Pages : 460
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A Profane Wit
Author: James William Johnson
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580461702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580461702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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.
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings
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