Earl of Rochester

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Beschreibung

The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three - described by Samuel Johnson as having blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness'.

Autor

John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedies, he lived a full but short life, dying in 1680 (with a dramatic deathbed renunciation of his atheism) at the age of thirty-three. Frank H. Ellis teaches at Smith College, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780140424591
• ISBN-10: 0140424598
• Artikelnr.: 21376671