Wadham and Gomorrah
Conrad Russell, 6 December 1984
The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
edited by Keith Walker.
Blackwell, 319 pp., £35, September 1984,0 631 12573 6 Show More
edited by Keith Walker.
Blackwell, 319 pp., £35, September 1984,
“... John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, one of the original ‘amorous sons of Wadham’, perhaps took part in writing an obscene farce called Sodom. Dr Walker drily observes that ‘to assert this twenty years ago would have damaged Rochester’s reputation as much as to deny it today ... ”