Rochester
Subtitle: The Poems in Context (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-century English Literature & Thought)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 25, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780521440424
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Verse satire, English; Literary Criticism; Early Modern English Poetry (1500-1700); Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Rochester, John Wilmot; Rochester, John Wilmot, --Earl of, --1647-168; Rochester, John Wilmot,--Earl of,--1647-1680--Criticism and interpretation; Earl of,; 1647-1680; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Love poetry, English; Rochester, John Wilmot,
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.