Building on the strength of Keith Walker?s acclaimed The
Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar
Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition
of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits.
Includes the text of Lucina?s Rape, Rochester?s
adaptation of Fletcher?s revenge tragedy Valentinian,
in a text that readily identifies Rochester?s revisions
Presents the poems in versions that were current during
Rochester?s lifetime, allowing the reader to experience the
poems as Rochester?s contemporaries did
Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the last
twenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously were
unavailable for study
Author Biography
Nicholas Fisher is a visiting research fellow at the
Institute of English Studies, University of London. He is the
co-editor of a performing edition of the early settings of
Rochester's songs, Songs to Phillis (1999), and its
expanded version, Singing to Phillis: Settings of Poems by the
Earl of Rochester 1647-1680 (2009). He is also the editor of a
collection of essays on Rochester, That Second Bottle
(2000).
