"When Beauty Fires the Blood": Love and the Arts in the Age of DrydenUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 474페이지 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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... Lady Berke- ley , " in which she praises Lady Berkeley's son for his precocious military career and his filial obedience . He then did Things , were Worthy to be writ ! Stayd not for Time , his Courage that out - ran In Actions , far ...
... Lady Berke- ley , " in which she praises Lady Berkeley's son for his precocious military career and his filial obedience . He then did Things , were Worthy to be writ ! Stayd not for Time , his Courage that out - ran In Actions , far ...
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... Lady with whom Ovid was in Love " may be meant to bring that other lady to mind , and thus as another ges- ture of playful courtship . Steeped as they are in such conventional tropes , Dryden's addresses to women might seem an unlikely ...
... Lady with whom Ovid was in Love " may be meant to bring that other lady to mind , and thus as another ges- ture of playful courtship . Steeped as they are in such conventional tropes , Dryden's addresses to women might seem an unlikely ...
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... Lady Sarah Piers ; her tribute , " To the Memory of the truly Honoured JOHN DRYDEN , Esq ; By a Young Lady , " ap- pears instead in Luctus Britannici , an earlier and longer folio dominated by male poets from the universities . 45 Among ...
... Lady Sarah Piers ; her tribute , " To the Memory of the truly Honoured JOHN DRYDEN , Esq ; By a Young Lady , " ap- pears instead in Luctus Britannici , an earlier and longer folio dominated by male poets from the universities . 45 Among ...
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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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