By Keith Walker, Nicholas Fisher
Development at the energy of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), best pupil Nicholas Fisher provides a completely revised and up to date version of the paintings of 1 the best recovery wits.Includes the textual content of Lucina’s Rape, Rochester’s model of Fletcher’s revenge tragedy Valentinian, in a textual content that effectively identifies Rochester’s revisionsPresents the poems in models that have been present in the course of Rochester’s lifetime, permitting the reader to event the poems as Rochester’s contemporaries didIncorporates insights and discoveries revamped the final twenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that in the past have been unavailable for learn
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James Thorpe (Princeton, 1950) The Gyldenstolpe Manuscript Miscellany of Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and other Restoration Authors, ed. Bror Danielsson and David M. Vieth (Stockholm, 1967) The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. David M. Vieth (New Haven and London, 1968) The Letters of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. Jeremy Treglown (Oxford, 1980) Lyrics & Satires of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. David Brooks (Sydney, 1980) John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Selected Poems, ed.
First publication: A New Collection of the Choicest Songs. Now in Esteem in Town or Court ([London], 1676), as lines 17–24 (p. 43) of ‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’. [Another version] Another Song In Imitation of Sir John Eaton’s Songs Too late, alas! I must confess You need no Arts to move me: Such Charms by Nature you possess, ’Twere madness not to love you. 5 surprize: ‘Not in its modern sense of “amaze” but one closer to the military sense of “ambush” or “take by storm” ’ (Love, p. 361).
Date: May 1660. Charles arrived back in England on 25 May 1660 to a rapturous reception. Copy-text: Britannia Rediviva (Oxford, 1660), sig. Aa1r–v. First publication: As copy-text. Departure from copy-text: [italics reversed]. [Impia blasphemi] Impia blasphemi sileant convitia vulgi: Absolvo medicos, innocuamque manum. Curassent alios facili medicamine morbos: Ulcera cùm veniunt, Ars nihil ipsa valet. Vultu fœmineo quævis vel pustula vulnus Lethale est; pulchras certior ense necat. Mollia vel temeret si quando mitior ora, Evadet forsan fœmina, Diva nequit.