Spirit of wit : reconsiderations of Rochester / edited by Jeremy Treglown
1982, 1st edition. Oxford : Blackwell. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #407183
ISBN: 0631128972
Physical description; 199 pp. ; 23 cm. Contents; The sense of nothing / Barbara Everett -- Rochester and the metaphysicals / John Wilders -- The professional amateur / Peter Porter -- 'He knew my style, he swore' / Jeremy Treglown -- Affairs of state / Basil Greenslade -- Wanton expressions / David Trotter -- Libertinism and sexual politics / Sarah Wintle -- An allusion to Horace / Pat Rogers -- Rochester and Shadwell / Raman Selden. Subjects; Rochester, John Wilmot Earl of 1647-1680 Criticism and interpretation. Addresses, essays, lectures.
Price: €14.95