Furtherreading
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FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by Jeremy Treglown (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980).
Johannes Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, His Life and Writings With His Lordship's Private Correspondence, Various Other Documents, And A Bibliography Of His Works And Of The Literature On Him (Leipzig: Mayer & Müller, 1927).
David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry: A Study of Rochester's "Poems" of 1680 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1963).
Vieth, Rochester Studies, 1925-1982: An Annotated Bibliography (New York & London: Garland, 1984).
Gilbert Burnet, Some Passages Of The Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester (London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1680).
Anthony Wood, "John Wilmot," in his Athenæ Oxonienses, volume 3, edited by Philip Bliss (London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington & others, 1817), pp. 1228-1234.
Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana: Being Some Anecdotes Concerning John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Leipzig: Privately printed, 1926).
Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (Leipzig: Mayer & Müller, 1927).
Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1935); revised as Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1647-1680 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962).
Charles Williams, Rochester (London: Arthur Barker, 1935).
Kenneth B. Murdock, "'A Very Profane Wit': John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680," in his The Sun at Noon: Three Biographical Sketches (New York: Macmillan, 1939).
John Harold Wilson, The Court Wits of the Restoration: An Introduction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948).
Charles Norman, Rake Rochester (New York: Crown, 1954).
Samuel Johnson, "Rochester," in his Lives of the English Poets, volume 1, edited by George Birckbeck-Hill (New York: Octagon, 1967), pp. 219-228.
John Adlard, ed., The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose (Manchester: Carcanet, 1974).
Graham Greene, Lord Rochester's Monkey being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (London: Bodley Head, 1974; New York: Viking, 1974).
W. J. Cameron, "A Late Seventeenth-Century Scriptorium," Renaissance and Modern Studies, 7 (1963): 25-52.
Larry Carver, "Rascal Before the Lord: Rochester's Religious Rhetoric," Essays in Literature, 9 (Fall 1982): 155-169.
A. S. G. Edwards, "The Authorship of Sodom," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 71 (Second Quarter 1977): 208-212.
David Farley-Hills, Rochester: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972).
Farley-Hills, Rochester's Poetry (London: Bell & Hyman, 1978; Totowa, N. J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1978).
Dustin H. Griffin, Satires Against Man: The Poems of Rochester (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973; London: University of California Press, 1973).
Thomas Hearne, The Remains of Thomas Hearne: Reliquiæ Hearnianæ, edited by John Buchanan-Brown (Fontwell & London: Centaur, 1966; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967).
J. W. Johnson, "Anthony à Wood and Rochester," Restoration, 12 (Fall 1988): 69-79.
Johnson, "Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 81 (June 1987): 119-153.
John F. Moehlmann, A Concordance to the Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1979).
John D. Patterson, "Rochester's Second Bottle: Attitudes to Drink and Drinking in the Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester," Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 5 (Spring 1981): 6-15.
Ronald Paulson, "Rochester: The Body Politic and the Body Private," in The Author in His Work: Essays on a Problem in Criticism, edited by Louis L. Martz and Aubrey Williams (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1978), pp. 103-121.
Anne Righter, "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester," Proceedings of the British Academy, 53 (1967): 47-69.
Ken Robinson, "The Art of Violence in Rochester's Satire," in English Satire and the Satiric Tradition, edited by Claude Rawson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984), pp. 93-108.
Robinson, "Rochester's Dilemma," Durham University Journal, new series 40 (June 1979): 223-231.
Marianne Thormählen, "Rochester and Jealousy: Consistent Inconsistencies," Durham University Journal, new series 49 (June 1988): 213-223.
Jeremy Treglown, ed., Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester (Oxford: Blackwell, 1982).
Francis Whitfield, Beast in View: A Study of the Earl of Rochester's Poetry (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936; London: Oxford University Press, 1936).
Reba Wilcoxon, "Rochester's Philosophical Premises: A Case for Consistency," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 8 (Winter 1974/75): 183-201.
Wilcoxon, "Rochester's Sexual Politics," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Roseann Runte (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979), pp. 137-149.