"When Beauty Fires the Blood": Love and the Arts in the Age of DrydenUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 474 sider James Anderson Winn is the author of a general history of the relations between music and poetry (Unsuspected Eloquence, 1981) and a full-scale biography of a major English poet (John Dryden and His World, 1986). In this new book, he brings together his interdisciplinary expertise, his deep knowledge of Dryden, and his interest in currently urgent issues of gender, arguing that Dryden's complex and contradictory attitudes toward human sexuality helped shape his influential ideas about nature and art, beauty and virtue, imagination and judgment. In examining Dryden's artistic practice and theory from this perspective, Winn addresses topics not often noticed in previous studies of Dryden: his technical knowledge of music and painting; his lively sexual imagination; his use of conventional and unconventional notions of gender to flesh out theoretical distinctions; and the contrasting attitudes of his contemporaries, especially those of women writers. Through subtle analyses of Dryden's theatrical songs, operas, treatises on painting, and addresses to women, Winn shows that the old view of Dryden as sharp satirist, doctrinal "lawgiver", and author of a "poetry of statement" is fatally incomplete. By developing an interpretation stressing other themes, he adds several new dimensions to our understanding of the poet and his period. |
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... sense , and a chiefe iudge of proportion , but in our kind of riming what pro- portion is there kept , where there remaines such a con- fusd inequalitie of sillables ? [ pp . 2 , 4-5 ] The larger purpose of Campion's treatise is to ...
... sense , and a chiefe iudge of proportion , but in our kind of riming what pro- portion is there kept , where there remaines such a con- fusd inequalitie of sillables ? [ pp . 2 , 4-5 ] The larger purpose of Campion's treatise is to ...
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... Sense . " Pope , of course , is being ironic , implicitly arguing the case for imaginative freedom ; Mar- garet Cavendish , alas , is being serious , endorsing her period's unfortunate need to constrain and limit women . Of course , she ...
... Sense . " Pope , of course , is being ironic , implicitly arguing the case for imaginative freedom ; Mar- garet Cavendish , alas , is being serious , endorsing her period's unfortunate need to constrain and limit women . Of course , she ...
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... Sense ) being the Print or foot - steps of Sense . It is the treasury of the mind , The darkness of night awakes our Speculations of the day ; when sleep failes , the Mind does , then , digest the conceived things into Order ; that so ...
... Sense ) being the Print or foot - steps of Sense . It is the treasury of the mind , The darkness of night awakes our Speculations of the day ; when sleep failes , the Mind does , then , digest the conceived things into Order ; that so ...
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Natures MotherWit and Arts Unknown Before | 1 |
Dryden on Nature and Art | 37 |
Dryden on Poetry and Music | 109 |
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