John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Subtitle: the poems and Lucina's rape
By: edited by Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher
Contributors: Walker, Keith, 1936-; Fisher, Nicholas
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781444319002
Description: 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 o.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on This Edition; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Further Reading; Abbreviations; 1 Juvenilia; 2 Love Poems; 3 Translations; 4 Prologues and Epilogues; 5 Satires and Lampoons; 6 Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope; 7 Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d'esprit, etc.; 8 Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester; 9 Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian; Index of Proper Names; Index of Titles and First Lines.