Author: WILMOT, JOHN; BROOKS, DAVID.
Title: Lyrics & Satires of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 148; frontispiece portrait, references, explanatory notes, textual notes, index of first lines, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. Sydney; Hale & Iremonger; 1980. Rochester, who died in 1680, was one of the finest lyric poets of the Restoration. Brooks has prepared this edition from contemporary manuscripts and printed editions. The text is fully annotated and is prefaced by an account of the main events in the poet's short life and a critical evaluation of his work.

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