We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
ROCHESTER AND MUCH A-DO ABOUT NOTHING.
- Authors
Manning, Gillian
- Abstract
The article states that Paul Hammond's recent edition of Rochester's poems cites the above lines from an anonymous "Song of Nothing," in relation to Rochester's celebrated verses "Upon Nothing." Hammond notes the presence of the "Song of Nothing," in "The Canting Academy," and suggests that the poem "appears to echo" the Rochester work, adding that "since Rochester is much more sophisticated the debt is likely to be that way round." On this basis, he puts forward 1673 as a probable "terminus ad quem," for the composition of "Upon Nothing," a view endorsed and repeated more positively by Rochester's latest editor, Keith Walker.
- Subjects
HAMMOND, Paul; ADVERTISING; JOURNALISTS; LOANS; DEBT; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1986, Vol 33, Issue 4, p479
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article