Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Paul Davis is the author of Translation and the Poet's Life: the Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646-1726 (OUP, 2008). Klappentext Rochester's scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his love poems and satires. This new, modern-spelling edition is the most textually up to date, based not on the unreliable printed editions but on the most authoritative manuscripts. It includes a valuable introduction, helpful notes, and an index of manuscripts. Zusammenfassung Rochester's scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his love poems and satires. This new, modern-spelling edition is the most textually up to date, based not on the unreliable printed editions but on the most authoritative manuscripts. It includes a valuable introduction, helpful notes, and an index of manuscripts.

Product details

• Authors: John Wilmot Rochester, John Wilmot
• Assisted by: Paul Davis (Editor), Paul (Reader in English Davis (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9780199584321
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958432-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama