Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Zusatztext Now he has received the accolade of a full-dress edition from Oxford University Press ... excellent explanatory notes - straight-faced - but not strait-laced ... this is an important book Klappentext John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of "court wits" surrounding Charles II and one of the wittiest and most sexually explicit poets in English. In this long-awaited edition, Harold Love, a leading scholar of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of Wilmot's manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes. Zusammenfassung John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of `court wits' surrounding Charles II. In this edition, Harold Love, one of the leading scholars of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of the manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations; Introduction; THE TEXTS; Poems probably by Rochester; ---Love dialogues; ---Love elegies etc; Disputed Works; Appendix Roffensis; ---Poems; ---Sodom and Gomorrah; CRITICAL APPARATUS; List of sources; Explanatory notes; Textual Introduction; Transmissional histories; Appendices by John Burrow; ---A computational approach to the canon; ---Results of computational analysis; Index of titles; Index of first lines

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• Authors: Rochester, John Wilmot Rochester, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot Wilmot Rochester, Rochester John Wilmot Earl of, John Wilmot
• Assisted by: Harold Love (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780198183679
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818367-9
• No. of pages: 712
• Series: Oxford English Texts; Oxford English Texts; C Oet T Oxford English Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets