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The Satyr - An Account of the Life and Work of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (Hardcover)
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The Satyr - An Account of the Life and Work of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (Hardcover)
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Rochester has the reputation as the archetypal 17th-century rake
and with good reason. When Charles II returned to England in 1660,
Rochester was at Wadham College, Oxford. Charles' restoration
inspired celebrations in the college that were so riotous that
Rochester broke off his studies. He wrote a poem in praise of the
new king that brought him an annual pension of 500 pounds and from
then on devoted himself to debauchery. In the short time that
comprised the rest of his life - Rochester was only 33 when he died
of tertiary syphilis - he loved both sexes wildly and
indiscriminately; was confined to the tower for kidnapping an
heiress; was released to fight a war against the Dutch; married and
fathered children with his wife and his mistress; advanced the
claims of Nell Gwyn; was banished repeatedly from Court for a
multitude of misdemeanours; suffered the agonies of thrice being
'cured' of syphilis; and then returned in 1680, on his death bed,
to the Protestant church. Yet this reckless courtier had other
qualities too. Rochester's unique and exquisitely phrased love
lyrics and poems on impotence, dissipation and erotic obsession are
steeped in wisdom and passion. Voltaire would
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