Lyons, P. (2017) John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Satire against Mankind. In: Womersley, D. (ed.) A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (7). Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., pp. 214-223. ISBN 9781405165327 (doi: 10.1002/9781405165327.ch18)
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Abstract
Erectile dysfunction provided Rochester with material for mock-tirades; disappointment takes a less physiological ground and a more analytic tone, as if in resignation to inevitability, when he reflects in a letter to his wife on ‘soe greate a disproportion t'wixt our desires & what [is] ordained to content them’. His most celebrated poem, his Satire against Mankind, presses to its limits this existential turn against the claims of humanism, and offers no remedy.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Lyons, Mr Patrick |
| Authors: | Lyons, P. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishers |
| ISBN: | 9781405165327 |
| Published Online: | 20 October 2017 |
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