Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on This Edition

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction

The Man

Text

Canon

Annotation

Arrangement of this Edition

Postscript for the Paperback Edition

Further Reading

Abbreviations

Juvenilia

Love Poems

Translations

Prologues and Epilogues

Satires and Lampoons

Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope

Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d’esprit, etc.

Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester

Lucina’s Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian

Index of Proper Names

Index of Titles and First Lines