![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote satires, love poems and plays throughout his adult life, and died at Woodstock Park in July 1680. Buy a discounted Paperback of The Debt To Pleasure online from Australias leading. He travelled until 1664, but was then imprisoned in the Tower of London for a time, allegedly for trying to abduct a Somerset heiress, whom he married upon his release from prison. Booktopia has The Debt To Pleasure, Picador Classic by John Lanchester. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1648-1680) was born near Oxford and studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he was awarded an MA. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph, among others. Phillips, and Fragrant Harbor and a memoir, Family Romance. ![]() The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with a startling, ribald and riotous clarity.Īs John Evelyn recalls: 'Mr Andrew Marvell (who was a good Judge of Witt) was wont to say that was the best English Satyrist and had the right veine. John Lanchester is the author of the novels The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and the words of those who loved or loathed him. Purchase includes: EPUB, MOBI & PDF Read reviews on Amazon & Goodreads ![]()
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