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Professor Harold Love, Melbourne

  • [Rochester MS poem]

    Copy on a single folio leaf.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly owned by Harold Love (1937-2007), literary scholar and editor.

    Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Walker and, with a facsimile, in Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing. Photocopy in the British Library, RP 833.

    • RoJ 594
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')

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