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John Wilmot was an English poet and part of Charles II’s court. His notable works are A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind, A Letter From Artemesia, and An Allusion to Horace. He was described by famed metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell as the “best English satirist.” His poetry was censored during the Victorian era.
29 de abr. de 1999 · John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of "court wits" surrounding Charles II and one of the wittiest and most sexually explicit poets in English. In this long-awaited edition, Harold Love, a leading scholar of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of Wilmot's manuscripts, with full ...
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. The Restoration reacted against the “spiritual authoritarianism” of the Puritan era. Rochester was the embodiment of the new era, and he is as well known for his rakish lifestyle as his poetry, although the two were often interlinked. He died at the ...
John Wilmot, conde de Rochester, fue un poeta y cortesano inglés nacido el 1 de abril de 1647 en Ditchley, Oxfordshire, y fallecido el 26 de julio de 1680 en Woodstock. A lo largo de su vida, Wilmot se convirtió en una figura destacada en la corte del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra, donde era conocido por su ingenio mordaz, su estilo de vida disipado y su arte poético provocativo.
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. The Restoration reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. Rochester embodied this new era, and he became as well known for his rakish lifestyle as for his poetry, although the two ...
Summary. ‘ Absent from thee ’ by John Wilmot is a satirical poem that makes light of traditional love poetry by speaking on serial unfaithfulness. The poem begins with the speaker stating that he is separated from the one he loves, the intended listener of the poem. While they are apart he is miserable.
Reason, by whose aspiring influence. We take a flight beyond material sense, Dive into mysteries, then soaring pierce. The flaming limits of the universe, Search heaven and hell, Find out what's ...
