num_pages: 766
description: John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of "court wits" surrounding Charles II and one of the wittiest and most sexually explicit poets in English. In this long-awaited edition, Harold Love, a leading scholar of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of Wilmot's manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes.
language: English
title: The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
titlecomplete: The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)
genres: Fiction, Classics, Poetry
ratings_count: 39
publisher: Oxford University Press