James W. James W. Johnson

A Profane Wit (eBook, PDF)

The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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Produktbeschreibung

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.

Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiringpatriot.

An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580466769
• Artikelnr.: 63932590

Autorenporträt

James William Johnson

Inhaltsangabe

A Christian Upbringing (1647
1655) A Classical Education (1656
1659) Growing Debauched at Oxford (1660
1661) The Grand Tour (1662
1664) Campaigns and Engagements (1665) Pursuits and Conquests (1666) Man's Estate (1667) The King's Pimp (1668
1669) Love Raised to Extremes (1669
1670) The Quintessence of Debauchery (1671) Sallies in the Country (1671
1672) Sodom (1673) New Scenes of Foppery (January
June 1674) Dog Days and Masques (July
December 1674) Reversals and Recognitions (1675) Livy and Sickness (January
April 1676) Flights and Disguises (May
December 1676) Sessions Poetical and Political (1677) Scurvy Alarums (1678) Extremity: on All Sides (1678
1679) An End of Communion (1679
1680) Sapience Angelical (May
July 1680)