Walker / Fisher John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The Poems and Lucina's Rape
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1900-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Building on the strength of Keith Walker's acclaimed ThePoems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholarNicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated editionof the work of one the greatest Restoration wits.
* Includes the text of Lucina's Rape, Rochester'sadaptation of Fletcher's revenge tragedy Valentinian,in a text that readily identifies Rochester's revisions
* Presents the poems in versions that were current duringRochester's lifetime, allowing the reader to experience thepoems as Rochester's contemporaries did
* Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the lasttwenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously wereunavailable for study

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Keith

Fisher, Nicholas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
Note on This Edition ix
Acknowledgments x
Chronology xii
Introduction xvii
Further Reading xxviii
Abbreviations xxxii
POEMS
Juvenilia 1
Love Poems 5
Translations 56
Prologues and Epilogues 61
Satires and Lampoons 68
Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope 111
Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d'esprit, etc. 131
Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester 138
LUCINA'S RAPE OR THE TRAGEDY OF VALLENTINIAN 161
Index of Proper Names 253
Index of Titles and First Lines 257

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Fisher is an associate research fellow at theInstitute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Universityof London. He has co-edited a performing edition of the earlysettings of Rochester's songs, Songs to Phillis(1999), and has edited a collection of essays on the poet, ThatSecond Bottle (2000). He is currently completing abibliography of the printed editions of Rochester's work.
Keith Walker taught at University College, London from 1966to 1996. Over the course of his notable career he produceddistinguished editions of the works of many of the majorRestoration and Eighteenth-Century writers, including The Poems ofJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), on which this new edition isbased.