The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; THE TEXTS: ; Poems probably by Rochester ; --Love dialogues ; --Love elegies etc. ; Disputed Works ; Appendix Roffensis ; --Poems ; --Sodom and Gomorrah ; CRITICAL APPARATUS: ; List of sources ; Explanatory notes ; Textual Introduction ; Transmissional histories ; Appendices by John Burrow ; --A computational approach to the canon ; --Results of computational analysis ; Index of titles ; Index of first lines

The notes that explain this rich embroglio of lovers, monarch, male rivals, and political intrigue are so richly detailed and touch upon topics of so much erotic piquancy, that they often read like scholarly minatures of seventeenth-century novellas.