| Reviews |
| - 'The notes that explain this rich embroglio of lovers, monarch, male rivals, and political intrigue are so richly detailed and touch upon topics of so much erotic piquancy, that they often read like scholarly minatures of seventeenth-century novellas.' - SEL, Summer 2000
- 'One other feature of this edition I think is innovatory - the use of computational stylists to determine authorship in seventeenth-century poetry ... This edition supersedes all earlier editions of Rochester.' - Keith Walker, The Yearbook of English Studies, 31
- 'It contains everything that a student of Rochester might reasonably expect from a Clarendon Press Works together with some prose pieces ... All this is accompanied by a commentary that draws fully on Love's own immense knowledge of Rochester and his seventeenth-century contexts.' - Keith Walker, The Yearbook of English Studies, 31
- 'this is an important book' - The Times 7/10/99
- 'It is a strength of Love's edition that he does not attempt the impossible task of resolving the uncertainties but seeks overtly to incorporate the fact of authorial and textual instability into his editorial method ... There has never before been an edition so fully and learnedly annotated and so wisely and thoughtfully conceived ... The commentary is admirable, with magisterial coverage of
political background, court doings and social mores.' - Claude Rawson, TLS 17/09/99
- 'Now he has received the accolade of a full-dress edition from Oxford University Press ... excellent explanatory notes - straight-faced - but not strait-laced ... this is an important book' - Jim McCue
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| Description | | - Rochester is one of the finest as well as the most scurrilous and sexually explicit poets of the Restoration period
- This long-awaited edition is ground-breaking in its handling of texts circulated in manuscript
| | John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of `court wits' surrounding Charles II. One of the wittiest and most sexually explicit poets in English, his poems circulated principally in manuscript, which makes the tracing of their transmissional history a peculiarly difficult task. In this long-awaited edition, Harold Love, one of the leading scholars of
seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of the manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes. It will be an important contribution to the study of manuscript publication as well as a vital resource for all students of Rochester. |
Readership: Scholars and students of Restoration poetry; bibliographers and scholars of the history of the book
| Contents |
Abbreviations
Introduction
THE TEXTS:
Poems probably by Rochester
---Love dialogues
---Love elegies etc.
Disputed Works
Appendix Roffensis
---Poems
---Sodom and Gomorrah
CRITICAL APPARATUS:
List of sources
Explanatory notes
Textual Introduction
Transmissional histories
Appendices by John Burrow
---A computational approach to the canon
---Results of computational analysis
Index of titles
Index of first lines
General index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Edited by Harold Love, Reader in English, Monash University, Victoria
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