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|title=Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

|author=Alexander Larman

|publisher=Head of Zeus

|date=July 2014

|website=http://alexanderlarman.com/

|summary=A biography of the notorious Restoration dandy, satirist and poet.

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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, was the ultimate 'live fast, die young' icon of the Stuart age, the seventeenth-century embodiment of 'Hope I die before I get old'. Restoration dandy, satirist and pornographic poet, he died a lingering death at the age of 33, racked by venereal disease and alcoholism. If he is remembered at all these days, except by those familiar with the history or literature of the age, it is as the James Dean or the Keith Moon of his day, a hellraiser whose poetry was heavily suppressed for many years by the censors. In fact much of his verse was not published under his name until long after his death, and as most of it was only circulated in manuscript form during his lifetime and a good deal destroyed by his mother after his death, it is uncertain how much does still survive.

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