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Article: The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Songs to Phillis: A Performing Edition of the Early Settings of Poems by the Earl of Rochester (1647-80).
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Ed. by Harold Love.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xlvii+712 pp. [pound]95.
Songs to Phillis: A Performing Edition of the Early Settings of Poems by
the Earl of Rochester (1647-80). Ed. by Steven Devine and Nicholas Fisher;
with a foreword by A. Rooley. Cambridge: King's Music. 1999. x+98 pp. [pound]25
with facsimilies (paperbound [pound]10).
Sometime in the 1970s orthe1980s, Harold Love began asking the seventeenth-century scribal documents he was working with some simple but searching questions. Who were you copied out for? Who copied you out? Did the person who commissioned you pay cash? If so, how much? What were ...