A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

by James William Johnson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580461700
• ISBN13: 9781580461702
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"