Selected Works (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester; H. Frank Ellis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140424598 ISBN 13: 9780140424591

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2004

Synopsis

While living a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring, Rochester produced comic verse, scurrilous satires, and highly explicit erotica. His Selected Works, edited by Frank H. Ellis and now available from Penguin Classics, show him to be one of the wittiest and most complex poets of the seventeenth century. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humor and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0140424598
• ISBN 13: 9780140424591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160