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David Farley-Hills, Rochester: The Critical Heritage (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972)

Germaine Greer, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Northcote, 2000)

M. Thormahlen, Rochester: The Poems in Context ( CUP, 1993)

Jeremy Treglown, The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Blackwell, 1985)

Jeremy Treglown, ed., Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester (Blackwell, 1982)

David M. Vieth, Rochester and Court Poetry (Univ. of  California Press, 1988)