A Selection of Satirical and Licentious Verse of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (The Reader’s Library Book 7)

A thoroughly representative selection of the poetry of Sir John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Rochester (1647–1680) was among the worst (best?) of the Restoration rakes, and also one of the period’s best satirists employing a direct language rife with plenty of four-letter words and an obsessive indulgence of the most vulgar vernacular used on behalf of satirical shredding, scatological humor, and sexual candor.