"When Beauty Fires the Blood": Love and the Arts in the Age of DrydenUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - Počet stran: 474 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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... Arthur with their bodies and their harmonies , are lineal descendants of the Indian singers . In a section for which no music survives , one of them urges Arthur to ... waste the Joyous Day With us in gentle Play : Unbend to Love ...
... Arthur with their bodies and their harmonies , are lineal descendants of the Indian singers . In a section for which no music survives , one of them urges Arthur to ... waste the Joyous Day With us in gentle Play : Unbend to Love ...
Strana 274
... Arthur so that Purcell could set it . We cannot know whether he had ever com- pleted the act that remained unwritten in 1684 ( presumably Act V ) , but we need not doubt his assertion that the revision involved removing or toning down ...
... Arthur so that Purcell could set it . We cannot know whether he had ever com- pleted the act that remained unwritten in 1684 ( presumably Act V ) , but we need not doubt his assertion that the revision involved removing or toning down ...
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... Arthur's supporters establishes the plot sit- uation : the Britons and Saxons are at war because Arthur and Oswald are rivals for the hand of Emmeline . A comparison of the rivals - both are brave , but Arthur is merciful - sets up the ...
... Arthur's supporters establishes the plot sit- uation : the Britons and Saxons are at war because Arthur and Oswald are rivals for the hand of Emmeline . A comparison of the rivals - both are brave , but Arthur is merciful - sets up the ...
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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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