Back Джон Уилмът Bulgarian John Wilmot Czech John Wilmot, 2il Iarll Rochester Welsh John Wilmot, 2. jarl af Rochester Danish John Wilmot, 2. Earl of Rochester German Τζον Ουίλμοτ, 2ος κόμης του Ρότσεστερ Greek John Wilmot (2-a grafo de Rochester) Esperanto John Wilmot Spanish جان ویلموت، دومین ارل راچستر Persian John Wilmot Finnish
The Earl of Rochester | |
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 Portrait by Peter Lely, 1677 | |
| Born | 1 April 1647 Ditchley, Oxfordshire, England |
| Died | 26 July 1680 (aged 33) Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England |
| Cause of death | Believed to be complications from syphilis[1] |
| Resting place | Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England |
| Alma mater | Wadham College University of Oxford |
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| Style | 2nd Earl of Rochester, 2nd Baron Wilmot of Adderbury, 3rd Viscount of Athlone (peerage of Ireland) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Malet |
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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 (O.S.) – 26 July 1680 (O.S.))[4] was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court, who reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era.[3] Rochester embodied this new era, and he became as well known for his rakish lifestyle as for his poetry, although the two were often interlinked.[3] He died as a result of a sexually transmitted infection at the age of 33.
Rochester was described by his contemporary Andrew Marvell as "the best English satirist", and he is generally considered to be the most considerable poet and the most learned among the Restoration wits.[5] His poetry was widely censored during the Victorian era, but enjoyed a revival from the 1920s onwards, with reappraisals from noted literary figures such as Graham Greene and Ezra Pound.[6] The critic Vivian de Sola Pinto linked Rochester's libertinism to Hobbesian materialism.[6]
During his lifetime Rochester was best known for A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind and it remains among his best-known works today.
- ^ Christopher Hill reviews 'The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester' edited by Jeremy Treglown · LRB 20 November 1980
- ^ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2013). Selected Poems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-164580-8.
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- ^ a b "A Martyr to Sin". The New York Times.