Rochester
Subtitle: The Poems in Context
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521024419
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Rochester, John Wilmot, --Earl of, --1647-168; Rochester, John Wilmot,--Earl of,--1647-1680--Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: The section entitled 'Love Poem' in Keith Walker's edition of Rochester's poetry contains a handful of poems where 'love' in terms of heterosexual relations, with or without an emotional element, is not the main issue.