Selected Poems

by John Wilmot

Book Overview

"If I by miracle can be
This livelong minute true to thee
'Tis all that heav'n allows."

The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a man who epitomized the theatricality, licentiousness, and skepticism of the Restoration age. But his scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his work: his love poems set new standards not only for sexual explicitness but also for psychological acuity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019958432X
• ISBN13: 9780199584321
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"