The Imperfect Enjoyment by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/imperfect.html   John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), was one of the most famous lyric poets of Charles II’s court. Rochester’s reputation declined during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, largely because of his work’s obscenity, which still has the power to startle modern readers. Scholarly interest in Rochester revived in the 1920s and again in the 1960s, when David M. Vieth produced a complete, uncensored edition of Rochester’s poems. Scholarly editions of Rochester’s works edited by Harold Love (1999) and by Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher (2010) are now available as well. Rochester’s poems range from tender love lyrics to savage pornographic satires. Even within a single poem, his tonal shifts can be startling,…