Author: Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141915838
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three - described by Samuel Johnson as having 'blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness'. Rochester was also one of the wittiest and most complex poets of the seventeenth century, writing comic verse, scurrilous satires and highly explicit erotica - from the bawdy self-portrait in 'The Maimed Debauchee' and the tender passion of 'Absent from thee I languish still' to the comic world-weariness of 'Upon Nothing' and 'A Satyr against Mankind', which mocks human follies. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humour and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.
Selected Works
Author: Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141915838
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three - described by Samuel Johnson as having 'blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness'. Rochester was also one of the wittiest and most complex poets of the seventeenth century, writing comic verse, scurrilous satires and highly explicit erotica - from the bawdy self-portrait in 'The Maimed Debauchee' and the tender passion of 'Absent from thee I languish still' to the comic world-weariness of 'Upon Nothing' and 'A Satyr against Mankind', which mocks human follies. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humour and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141915838
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three - described by Samuel Johnson as having 'blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness'. Rochester was also one of the wittiest and most complex poets of the seventeenth century, writing comic verse, scurrilous satires and highly explicit erotica - from the bawdy self-portrait in 'The Maimed Debauchee' and the tender passion of 'Absent from thee I languish still' to the comic world-weariness of 'Upon Nothing' and 'A Satyr against Mankind', which mocks human follies. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humour and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.
The doctor's life, 1728-1735
Author: Aleyn Lyell Reade
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Works of Symon Patrick, D.D., Sometime Bishop of Ely. Including His Autobiography. Edited by ... Alexander Taylor
Author: Simon PATRICK (successively Bishop of Chichester and of Ely.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Scarce and Valuable Old Books. Catalogue of an extensive collection of ... books ... which will be sold at auction, by Bangs, Richards & Platt ... February 17th [1840], etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen Vol 4 Part 2
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368768263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368768263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Johnsonian Gleanings: The doctor's life, 1728-1735
Author: Aleyn Lyell Reade
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Alphabetical Arrangement of Main Entries from the Shelf List
Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Works of Simon Patrick, D.D. Sometime Bishop of Ely. Including His Autobiography
Author: Simon Patrick
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
The Hunting of Leviathan
Author: Samuel I. Mintz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521131322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Mintz examines seventeenth-century reactions to the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521131322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Mintz examines seventeenth-century reactions to the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.