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Title: Upon Nothing
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Witty satire on the primacy of nothing or emptiness in cosmology, and of
meaninglessness in worldly affairs
Title: In comendation of the King of France
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 1669 ?
Manuscript: Lt 55
Contents: Condensed paraphrase of 8 lines of preceding Latin verse,
satirising Louis XIV's expansion of his empire
Title: My Ld. R. verses
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Attribution: Ld. R.
Date(s): 1674 ?
Manuscript: Lt 55
Contents: Bawdy satire on the sexual preoccupations and activities of
Charles II
Title: Satyr
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 1674 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Bawdy satire on the sexual preoccupations and activities of Charles II
Title: A satyr on man
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 1674
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Satire on man's proximity to animals, and his happiness being destroyed by pride and dependence on reason rather than instinct
Title: Upon nothing
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 167-
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Witty satire on the primacy of nothing or emptiness in cosmology, and of meaninglessness in worldly affairs, here unusually divided into three parts assigned to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and Mr Shepherd,
probably
Title: Man
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 1674
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: On how man's happiness is destroyed by pride and by his dependence on reason rather than instinct; extract from Rochester's "Satire against mankind".
Title: Fame
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Extract from Rochester's "An Epistolary Essay", criticising the perverse effects on reputation of fame or notoriety
Title: A satire on man
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 1764 or 1765
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Satire on man's proximity to animals, and his happiness being destroyed by pride and dependence on reason rather than instinct
Title: Upon nothing
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Attribution: D.B. and E. Roc.
Date(s): 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Witty satire on the primacy of nothing or emptiness in cosmology, and of meaninglessness in worldly affairs, here apparently attributed also to George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham