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A Profane Wit - The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Paperback)
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A Profane Wit - The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Paperback)
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A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the
glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot,
the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious.
Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell.
Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries
with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with
sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the
court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts
behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed
repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if
unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious
scholar, a social critic, and an aspiringpatriot. An Emeritus
professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William
Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles
treating British and American Literature.
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