John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

*cite book
last = Lamb
first = Jeremy
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title = So Idle a Rogue: The Life and Death of Lord Rochester
publisher = Sutton
date = New edition, 2005
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pages = 288 pages
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0-7509-3913-3
*cite book
last = Johnson
first = James William
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title = A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
publisher = University of Rochester Press
date = 2004
location = Rochester, NY.
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id = ISBN 1-58046-170-0
*cite book
last = Wilmot
first = John
title = The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Ed. Harold Love.
publisher = Oxford University Press
date = 1999
location = New York
id = ISBN 0198183674
*cite book
last = Wilmot
first = John
authorlink =
coauthors = David M. Vieth, ed.
title = The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
publisher = Yale University Press
date = New edition, 2002
location = New Haven, CT
pages = 256 pages
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0-300-09713-1
*cite book
last = Wilmot
first = John
authorlink =
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title = The Debt to Pleasure
publisher = Routledge
date = 2002
location = New York
pages = 140 pages
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0-415-94084-2

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* Haas, Ealasaid A. (2000) " [http://www.ealasaid.com/fan/rochester/main.html John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester] ." Material for an Honors Thesis at Occidental College.
* Ynys-Mon, Mark, ed. [http://www.druidic.org/roc-bio.htm Poems and a short Biography] at druidic.org. (The biography is the source of this article.)
* [http://www.pornokrates.com/rochester.html Samples of John Wilmot's bawdy poetry at "Pornokrates"]

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