SOME QUOTATIONS FROM ROCHESTER IN CHARLES BLOUNT'S PHILOSTRATUS.

The article focuses on some quotations of poet John Rochesters's poems in the book "The Two First Books of Philostratus," by Charles Blount. The quotations are scattered among Blount's idiosyncratic and compendious notes to his translation, and are of interest on two main counts. Firstly, they are of textual importance since all derive from manuscript sources, and one constitutes the earliest known version of an extract from one of Rochester's translations from poet Lucretius. Secondly, they offer one a rare example of how a contemporary admirer viewed some of Rochester's works, in particular, A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind. There also occurs in Blount's notes an intriguing passage which may well glance at reactions to Rochester's deathbed conversion.