Reading Rochester
By: edited by Edward Burns.
Contributors: Burns, Edward, 1955-
Series: Liverpool English texts and studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Rochester, John Wilmot, -- Earl of, -- 1647-1680.
Description: A collection of essays exploring all aspects of one of the most controversial English poets, the 17th-century libertine The Earl of Rochester. Different sections focus on sexual politics, on the poetry of intellect and on Rochester and his contemporaries.