Doomed to Sincerity
Germaine Greer: Rochester as New Man, 16 September 1999
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
edited by Harold Love.
Oxford, 712 pp., £95, April 1999,0 19 818367 4 Show More
edited by Harold Love.
Oxford, 712 pp., £95, April 1999,
“... R——, in which, of 61 poems, only about half are likely to have been written by Rochester. The anonymous publishers were as aware of their own dishonesty as Burnet must have been, because different attributions for some of the poems they published as by Rochester can be found in their copy-text, a manuscript now in the Beinecke Library at Yale. As ... ”