John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Nicholas Fisher is an associate research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has co-edited a performing edition of the early settings of Rochester’s songs, Songs to Phillis (1999), and has edited a collection of essays on the poet, That Second Bottle (2000).  He is currently completing a bibliography of the printed editions of Rochester's work. Keith Walker taught at University College, London from 1966 to 1996. Over the course of his notable career he produced distinguished editions of the works of many of the major Restoration and Eighteenth-Century writers, including The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), on which this new edition is based.

• List of Illustrations viiiNote on This Edition ixAcknowledgments xChronology xiiIntroduction xviiFurther Reading xxviiiAbbreviations xxxiiPoemsJuvenilia 1Love Poems 5Translations 56Prologues and Epilogues 61Satires and Lampoons 68Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope 111Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d’esprit, etc. 131Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester 138Lucina’s Rape or the Tragedy of Vallentinian 161Index of Proper Names 253Index of Titles and First Lines 257