Selected Works
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2004
Summary
A new selection of Rochester’s poems to coincide with the major new movie, Libertine, starring Johnny Depp as Rochester and John Malkovich.
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’.
Rochester was also one of the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140424591 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140424598 |
| Author: | Earl of Rochester, Frank H. Ellis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2004 |
| Weight: | 123g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Earl of Rochester
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.
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