Faculty: James A. Winn

James A. Winn
winnjama@bu.edu
Professor of English; Director, Boston University Humanities Foundation. B. A., Princeton; Ph.D., Yale.

Teaching and Research Interests: Restoration and 18th-century English literature; literature and the other arts.
Selected Publications: The Poetry of War (2008); The Pale of Words: Reflections on the Humanities and Performance (1998); “When Beauty Fires the Blood”: Love and the Arts in the Age of Dryden (1992); John Dryden and his World (1987); Unsuspected Eloquence: A History of the Relations between Poetry and Music (1981); A Window in the Bosom: The Letters of Alexander Pope (1977); “John Dryden, Court Theatricals, and the ‘Epilogue to the faithfull Shepheardess,’” Restoration 32 (2008): 45–54; “Dryden and Dorset in 1692: A New Record,” Philological Quarterly 85 (2006) [recte 2008]: 391–397; “Style and Politics in the Philips-Handel Ode for Queen Anne’s Birthday, 1713,” Music and Letters89 (2008): 547–561; “Five Best,” The Wall Street Journal, 24 May 2008; “A Waste of Shame,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 54 (April 11, 2008): B16; “‘A Versifying Maid of Honour’: Anne Finch and the Libretto for Venus and Adonis,” RES (2007); “‘Thy wars brought nothing about’: Dryden’s Critique of Military Heroism,” The Seventeenth Century (2006); “Dryden’s Songs,” in Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden, ed. Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak (2004);“Past and Present in Dryden’s Fables,” Huntington Library Quarterly (2001); “Dissonance: 1613-1798,” Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, ed. Howard Weinbrot and Peter Schakel (2001); “‘According to my Genius’: Dryden’s Translation of ‘The First Book of Homer’s Ilias’,” in Tercentenary Essays on John Dryden, ed. Paul Hammond and David Hopkins (2000); “Theatrical Culture II: Theatre and Music, 1656-1728,” in The Cambridge Companion to Restoration English Literature (1997); “Heroic Song: A Proposal for a Revised History of English Theatre and Opera, 1656-1711,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (1997); “An Old Historian Looks at the New Historicism,” in Comparative Studies in Society and History (1993); “‘Dryden’s Epistle before Creech’s Lucretius’: A Study in Restoration Ghostwriting,” Philological Quarterly (1992); “Bach at 300: Words, Notes, and Numbers,” New York Times Book Review (1985); “The Beatles as Artists: A Meditation for December 9th,” Michigan Quarterly Review (1984); “Pope Plays the Rake: His Letters to Ladies and the Making of the Eloisa,” in The Art of Alexander Pope (1979).
Work in Progress: “Culture and Politics in the Reign of Queen Anne.”

Awards: Recipient of the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor (2009)


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	James A. Winn winnjama@bu.edu Professor of English; Director, Boston University Humanities Foundation. B. A., Princeton; Ph.D., Yale. Teaching and Research Interests: Restoration and 18th-century English literature; literature and the other arts. Selected Publications: The Poetry of War (2008); The Pale of Words: Reflections on the Humanities and Performance (1998); “When Beauty Fires the Blood”: Love and the Arts in the Age of Dryden (1992); John Dryden and his World (1987); Unsuspected Eloquence: A History of the Relations between Poetry and Music (1981); A Window in the Bosom: The Letters of Alexander Pope (1977); “John Dryden, Court Theatricals, and the ‘Epilogue to the faithfull Shepheardess,’” Restoration 32 (2008): 45–54; “Dryden and Dorset in 1692: A New Record,” Philological Quarterly 85 (2006) [recte 2008]: 391–397; “Style and Politics in the Philips-Handel Ode for Queen Anne’s Birthday, 1713,” Music and Letters89 (2008): 547–561; “Five Best,” The Wall Street Journal, 24 May 2008; “A Waste of Shame,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 54 (April 11, 2008): B16; “‘A Versifying Maid of Honour’: Anne Finch and the Libretto for Venus and Adonis,” RES (2007); “‘Thy wars brought nothing about’: Dryden’s Critique of Military Heroism,” The Seventeenth Century (2006); “Dryden’s Songs,” in Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden, ed. Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak (2004);“Past and Present in Dryden’s Fables,” Huntington Library Quarterly (2001); “Dissonance: 1613-1798,” Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, ed. Howard Weinbrot and Peter Schakel (2001); “‘According to my Genius’: Dryden’s Translation of ‘The First Book of Homer’s Ilias’,” in Tercentenary Essays on John Dryden, ed. Paul Hammond and David Hopkins (2000); “Theatrical Culture II: Theatre and Music, 1656-1728,” in The Cambridge Companion to Restoration English Literature (1997); “Heroic Song: A Proposal for a Revised History of English Theatre and Opera, 1656-1711,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (1997); “An Old Historian Looks at the New Historicism,” in Comparative Studies in Society and History (1993); “‘Dryden’s Epistle before Creech’s Lucretius’: A Study in Restoration Ghostwriting,” Philological Quarterly (1992); “Bach at 300: Words, Notes, and Numbers,” New York Times Book Review (1985); “The Beatles as Artists: A Meditation for December 9th,” Michigan Quarterly Review (1984); “Pope Plays the Rake: His Letters to Ladies and the Making of the Eloisa,” in The Art of Alexander Pope (1979). Work in Progress: “Culture and Politics in the Reign of Queen Anne.” Awards: Recipient of the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor (2009)

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