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A Profane Wit
The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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James W. James W. Johnson
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
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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.
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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February 5, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781580466769
Original publisher:
University of Rochester Press
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Keywords for this book
Adderbury; Pietro Aretino; Andrew Balfour; Elizabeth Barry; Henry Bennet; Earl of Arlington; Bishop Gilbert Burnet; Catholicism; Anthony Ashley Cooper; James Crofts; John Crowne; John Dryden; France; Nell Gwyn; Thomas Hobbes; Edward Hyde; Louise de Keroualle; Thomas Osborne; Oxford; Barbara Villiers Palmer; Parliament; Sir Henry Savile; Charles Stuart II; George Villiers; Anne Wilmot; Elizabeth Wilmot
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
