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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3630941.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 474 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat ""When beauty fires the blood".".
- catalog identifier "0472103393 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf ""When beauty fires the blood".".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation ""When beauty fires the blood".".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "821/.4 20".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, British 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, British.".
- catalog subject "Art and literature England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Dryden, John, 1631-1700 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Dryden, John, 1631-1700 Knowledge Art.".
- catalog subject "Dryden, John, 1631-1700.".
- catalog subject "Love in art.".
- catalog subject "Love in literature.".
- catalog subject "Love poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR3427.L65 W56 1992".
- catalog title ""When beauty fires the blood" : love and the arts in the age of Dryden / James Anderson Winn.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".