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Born in April 1, 1647 / Died in July 26, 1680 / United Kingdom / English

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: Books

  • Corydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [broadside] (London, 1676?).
  • Artemisa to Cloe. A Letter from a Lady in the Town, to a Lady in the Country; Concerning The Loves of the Town: By a Person of Quality [broadside] (London, 1679).
  • A Letter from Artemiza in the Town, to Chloë in the Country. By a Person of Honour [broadside] (London, 1679).
  • A Satyr Against Mankind. Written by a Person of Honour [broadside] (London, 1679).
  • Upon Nothing. A Poem. By a Person of Honour [broadside] (London, 1679).
  • A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679).
  • Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable The E. of R—(Antwerpen [i.e., London], 1680; facsimile, Menston: Scolar, 1971).
  • A Letter To Dr. Burnet, From the right Honourable the Earl of Rochester, As he lay on His Death-Bed, At His Honours Lodge In Woodstock-Park (London: Printed for Richard Bentley, 1680).
  • Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a late Person of Honour (London: Printed for A. Thorncome, 1685).
  • Valentinian: A Tragedy. As 'tis Alter'd by the late Earl of Rochester, And Acted at the Theatre-Royal, adaptation of John Fletcher's Valentinian (London: Printed for Timothy Goodwin, 1685).
  • Poems, &c. on Several Occasions: with Valentinian, a Tragedy (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691).
  • Poems, (&c.) On Several Occasions: with Valentinian; a Tragedy (London: Printed by Jacob Tonson, 1696).
  • Familiar Letters: Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester. And several other Persons of Honour and Quality, 2 volumes (London: Printed by W. Onley for Sam Briscoe, 1697).
  • Poems on Several Occasions. By the R. H. the E. of R. (London: Printed for A. T., 1701).
  • Poems on Several Occasions; with Valentinian; a Tragedy (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1705).
  • The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester And Roscommon. With The Memoirs of the Life and Character of the late Earl of Rochester, in a Letter to the Dutchess of Mazarine. By Mons. St. Evremont (London: Printed & sold by B. Bragge, 1707; second edition, London: Printed for Edmund Curll, 1707; third edition, 1709).
  • Poems on Several Occasions: with Valentinian; a Tragedy. To which is added, Advice to a Painter. Written by the Right Honourable John, late Earl of Rochester (London: Printed by H. Hills & sold by the booksellers of London & Westminster, 1710).
  • Poems on Several Occasions. By the R. H. the E. of R. (London, 1713).
  • The Works of John Earl of Rochester. Containing Poems, On Several Occasions: His Lordship's Letters To Mr. Savil and Mrs. * * with Valentinian, a Tragedy. Never before Publish'd together (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1714).
  • Remains of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester. Being Satyrs, Songs, and Poems; Never before Published. From a Manuscript found in a Gentleman's Library that was Cotemporary with him (London: Printed for Tho. Dryar & sold by T. Harbin, W. Chetwood & the booksellers of London & Westminster, 1718).
  • Poems on Several Occasions. By the R. H. the E. of R. (London, 1731).
  • The Poetical Works Of that Witty Lord John Earl of Rochester: Left in Ranger's Lodge in Woodstock Park, where his Lordship died, and never before Printed; with Some Account of the Life of that ingenious Nobleman. Extracted from Bishop Burnet, and other Eminent Writers (London, 1761).
Editions
  • Rochester's Sodom Herausgegeben nach dem Hamburger Manuscript, edited by L. S. A. M. von Römer (Paris: Welter, 1904).
  • Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by John Hayward (London: Nonesuch, 1926).
  • John Wilmot Earl of Rochester: His Life and Writings, edited by Johannes Prinz (Leipzig: Mayer & Müller, 1927).
  • Rochester's Poems on Several Occasions, edited by James Thorpe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950).
  • Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953).
  • Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery. Written for the Royall Company of Whoremasters, possibly by Rochester (Paris: Olympia, 1957).
  • Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, possibly by Rochester, edited by Albert Ellis (North Hollywood: Brandon, 1966).
  • The Gyldenstolpe Manuscript Miscellany of Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and Other Restoration Authors, edited by Bror Danielsson and David M. Vieth, Stockholm Studies in English, 17 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1967).
  • The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by Vieth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968).
  • Lyrics and Satires of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by David Brooks (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1980).
  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Selected Poems, edited by Paul Hammond (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1982).
  • The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by Keith Walker (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984).
Other
  • "To His Sacred Majesty, on His Restoration in the Year 1660," possibly by Rochester, in Britannia Rediviva (Oxford: Excudebat A. & L. Lichfield, Acad. Typogr., 1660).
  • "In Obitum Serenissimae Mariæ Principis Arausionensis" and "To Her Sacred Majesty, the Queen Mother, on the Death of Mary, Princess of Orange," both possibly by Rochester, in Epicedia Academiæ Oxoniensis, in Obitum Serenissimæ Mariæ Principis Arausionensis (Oxford: Typis Lichfieldianis, 1660).
  • "Celia, the faithful servant you disown" and "All things submit themselves to your command," in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By Several Persons. Never before in Print (London: Hobart Kemp, 1672).
  • "The second Prologue at Court," in The Empress of Morocco, by Elkanah Settle (London: Printed for William Cademan, 1673).
  • "The Epilogue," in Love in the Dark, or The Man of Bus'ness, by Francis Fane (London: Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1675).
  • "While on those lovely looks I gaze," in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676).
  • "The Epilogue," in Circe, a Tragedy, by Charles D'Avenant (London: Printed for Richard Tonson, 1677).
  • "Give me leave to rail at you," lines 1-8 by Rochester, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman (1677).
Letters
  • The Rochester-Savile Letters 1671-1680, edited by John Harold Wilson (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1941).