John Wilmot (1647 - 1680)

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John Wilmot second Earl of Rochester was born in Oxfordshire on 1 April 1647, and died there on 26 July 1680, notorious because - as Samuel Johnson put it - "in a course of drunken gaiety and gross sensuality, with intervals of study perhaps yet more criminal, with an avowed contempt of decency and order, a total disregard to every moral, and a resolute denial of every religious observation, he lived worthless and useless, and blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness". Rocheste.. Continue..

Some of John Wilmot Poems

By All Love's Soft, Yet Mighty Powers

The Imperfect Enjoyment

An Allusion to Horace

A Song Of A Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover

The Disabled Debauchee

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Quote from Author

	Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

- John Wilmot

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