So Idle a Rogue: Life and Death of Lord Rochester

by JeremyLamb (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.29

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.29

  The name of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, is synonymous with excess. One of the most outrageous luminaries at the court of Charles II, he drank himself to death at the age of 33. This biography examines the nature of Rochester's alcoholism and its effects on the man and his poetry.