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On Satire: The Earl of Rochester

According to one contemporary, the Earl of Rochester was a man who, in life as well is in poetry, ‘could not speak with any warmth, without repeated Oaths, which, upon any sort of provocation, came almost naturally from him.’ It’s certainly hard to miss Rochester's enthusiastic use of obscenities, though their precise meanings can sometimes be obscure. As a courtier to Charles II, his poetic subject was most often the licentiousness and intricate political manoeuvring of the court’s various factions, and he was far from a passive observer. In this episode Clare and Colin consider why Restoration England was such a satirical hotbed, and describe the ways in which Rochester, with a poetry rich in bravado but shot through with anxiety, transformed the persona of the satirist. This is an extract from the episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecryt In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsyt Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford. All episodes in the 'On Satire' series: What is satire?    • On Satire: What is satire?   John Donne's Satires:    • On Satire: John Donne's Satires   Ben Jonson's 'Volpone':    • On Satire: Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'   The Earl of Rochester:    • On Satire: The Earl of Rochester   John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera':    • On Satire: John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'   'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope:    • On Satire: 'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope   'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' by Laurence Sterne:    • On Satire: 'The Life and Opinions of Trist...   Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’    • 'Interest' and reading in Jane Austen   ABOUT CLOSE READINGS Close Readings is a multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books exploring different periods of literature through a selection of key works. Enjoy an introductory grounding like no other from Europe's leading literary journal: fluent, rigorous, irreverent and never boring. Find more episodes here:    • Close Readings   Running in 2024: ON SATIRE with Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell HUMAN CONDITIONS with Adam Shatz, Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes Edwards AMONG THE ANCIENTS II with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones Plus two bonus series: MEDIEVAL LOLS with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley POLITICAL POEMS with Seamus Perry and Mark Ford Also included in the Close Readings subscription, the full series of: AMONG THE ANCIENTS I with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones MEDIEVAL BEGINNINGS with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley THE LONG AND SHORT with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry MODERN-ISH POETS: SERIES 1 with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.