posted by
mylescorcoran at 11:18am on 12/02/2009 under 2009, bookblog, poetry, rudest_court_poet_in_history, sonnets
At
wwhyte's recommendation I'm reading 101 Sonnets edited by Don Paterson. It's a great collection but I have to share this one corker, Régime de Vivre, by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.
( cut for quite possibly the rudest court poet in history )
sammywol said she was quite sympathetic to old Wilmot until he threw up in her lap.
( cut for quite possibly the rudest court poet in history )
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