19%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Selected Poems
Earl Of Rochester John Wilmot
€ 13.99
€ 11.32
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Selected Poems
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Davis, Paul. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and scepticism of the Restoration age. But his scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his work: his love poems set new standards not only of sexual explicitness but also of psychological acuity and lyric grace, while his satires broke new ground as much by the refinement of their ironies as in the brutality of their invective. A fascinatingly contradictory figure, Rochester emerges more clearly ... Read more
'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and scepticism of the Restoration age. But his scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his work: his love poems set new standards not only of sexual explicitness but also of psychological acuity and lyric grace, while his satires broke new ground as much by the refinement of their ironies as in the brutality of their invective. A fascinatingly contradictory figure, Rochester emerges more clearly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199584321
SKU
V9780199584321
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4
About Earl Of Rochester John Wilmot
Paul Davis is the author of Translation and the Poet's Life: the Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646-1726 (OUP, 2008).
Reviews for Selected Poems