The PoemsA scholarly edition of The Poems of John Oldham by Harold F. Brooks and Raman Selden. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. |
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... Rochester , Poems : John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , Complete Poems , ed . D.M. Vieth ( 1968 ) Rochester , Poems ( Pinto ) : John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , Poems , ed . V. de Sola Pinto ( 2nd edn . , 1964 ) Rochester , Letters ...
... Rochester , Poems : John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , Complete Poems , ed . D.M. Vieth ( 1968 ) Rochester , Poems ( Pinto ) : John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , Poems , ed . V. de Sola Pinto ( 2nd edn . , 1964 ) Rochester , Letters ...
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... Rochester's in ' A Very Heroical Epistle to Ephelia'.57 In the comparison with Rochester , some allowance is to be made for difference of genre : lightness of touch is more requisite in an epistle , ' heroical ' though it may be , than ...
... Rochester's in ' A Very Heroical Epistle to Ephelia'.57 In the comparison with Rochester , some allowance is to be made for difference of genre : lightness of touch is more requisite in an epistle , ' heroical ' though it may be , than ...
Page xlv
... Rochester's art was commonly too subtle to be of much benefit to Oldham's ; though doubtless Oldham profited from his handling in satire of inset colloquial speech and brief dramatic scenes . Of Rochester's metaphysical cast of mind ...
... Rochester's art was commonly too subtle to be of much benefit to Oldham's ; though doubtless Oldham profited from his handling in satire of inset colloquial speech and brief dramatic scenes . Of Rochester's metaphysical cast of mind ...
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