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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II 's Restoration court, who reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. [3]
Lord Rochester died in 1658 and was succeeded by his son John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. He was a poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of satirical and bawdy poetry. He married the heiress Elizabeth Malet.
Scarcely a year after the Earl’s death, the Countess of Rochester passed away at the age of about 29 or 30—even younger than her hard-living husband. Their son Charles died soon after his mother's death.
John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl of Rochester, was born in 1647 to an aristocratic family in England. However, when his father died in debt, young Rochester was left ‘half-educated’ and completely dependent on King Charles II, the greatest rake of the day.
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester and Baron of Adderbury in England, Viscount Athlone in Ireland, infamous in his time for his life and works and admired for his deathbed performance, was the cynosure of the libertine wits of Restoration England.
Rochester’s life was a scandal, and so were his poems. Many of them portray bisexual orgies, public sex, prostitution, impotence, drunkenness, masturbation “in a pigsty,” and rampant sexually transmitted diseases, in songs, satires, verse-letters, and impersonations.
Although Rochester had maintained a rigid skepticism throughout his life, these conversations, with the knowledge of imminent death, triggered a sensational repentance.
