A hand-copied Rochester manuscript. A famous portrait of Lord Rochester. Rochester's verse satire against King Charles II.
Jonathan Kramnick (2002) on Rochester, the history of sexuality, "Love a Woman" and other poems.
"Fair Chloris" in our own clean text. Pastoral. Also pastoral. Definitely not pastoral.
Writers can make identity seem unstable. Or fluid. Or like a slot machine. Maybe sex can make identity go away. Or maybe we want to build a community with inclusive labels.
Rochester's Dildo. The future King, James II (portrait by Lely). Mary of Modena, whose arrival occasioned the poem. Tom Killigrew. Slightly later dildos and their source.
Rochester's poem "The Disabled Debauchee." Rochester's poem in tercets "Upon Nothing." One nothing. Another nothing. And another; and another? Not this guy.
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