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Rochester's honesty.(Selected Works)(Book Review)
In 1974, Viking Press issued Lord Rochester's Monkey, Graham Greene's biography of the Restoration poet John Wilmot. Greene actually wrote the book forty-four years earlier, but was unable to publish it for fear of the scandal its salacious details might cause: copies of a contemporaneous edition of Rochester's poems had been incinerated by the New York Customs Authority. That lurid history gave the biography an immediate cachet, and helped to revive the poet's reputation. Greene certainly had precedent. Voltaire called the poet a "man of genius." Dr. Johnson, despite firm disapproval of the Earl's personal comportment, praised him for "the vigor of his colloquial wit." ...
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- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Walker, Keith January 1, 2001 700+ words
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Ed. by Harold Love. Oxford...Settings of Poems by the Earl of Rochester (1647-80). Ed. by Steven...contains everything that a student of Rochester might reasonably expect from a...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant Caterson, Simon July 1, 2006 700+ words
...Restoration poet and satirist John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, was a more accomplished writer...Geoffrey Rush in Quills, but Rochester has been ignored by filmmakers. Until now, that is. Rochester's relative obscurity is set...
- Rochester: The Poems in Context.
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Krook, Anne K. June 22, 1996 700+ words
Marianne Thormahlen hopes her book Rochester: The Poems in Context will "[go] some...wrote-with-ease image" (8) of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Given how many of Rochester's poems have such subjects and titles...
- First, a poet; Literary biography; The libertine Lord Rochester.(Books and...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 3, 2001 700+ words
...LIFE AND WORK, DEATH AND SALVATION OF JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER. EVEN to his contemporaries, Rochester was a legendary figure. One of the...destroyed by alcoholism and syphilis, Rochester's legend took a surprising turn...
- Naked Numbers: A curve from Wyatt to Rochester.(use of numbers in English...
- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review McHugh, Heather January 1, 2002 700+ words
...quickest sands of language. John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, is a case in point. Given...period of disgrace at Court. (Rochester's father, in his own day...actually work as exposes. Rochester savaged his rival Sir Carr...
- 'THE LIBERTINE' IS ALL DARKNESS.(U)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) November 25, 2005 700+ words
...the debauched life of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, it leaves the impression...dark, dark study of John Wilmot, a Restoration-era...Johnny Depp portrays John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, in ``The Libertine...
- 'Libertine' immune to Depp's charms.(Movie Review)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) March 10, 2006 700+ words
...playing the title role of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, famed Restoration rake...redeems the film, if not Rochester's soul. He's the main...Running time: 1:15. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester .... Johnny Depp Elizabeth...
- Depp powers 'The Libertine'; But film weakens, declines, just like actor's...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 10, 2006 700+ words
...decorous. Johnny Depp's John Wilmot, the real life Earl of Rochester, dares us to hate him for...disconnected form, as if John Wilmot himself were writing it...The Libertine's" John Wilmot might get lost in the shadow...
Source: HighBeam Research, Rochester's honesty.(Selected Works)(Book Review)