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Thinking about the realm of the aural in romantic-era art almost by nature implicates the realm of the visual in relation to the aural.

Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

Moreover, I hope to show that this rethinking is an enterprise to which Wordsworth himself, as well as other romantic-era writers, contributes.

Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

This relationship has been persistently elusive, because romantic-era culture defined itself in part through its opposition to the figure, and indeed the sound, of the castrato, which it fantasized as having purged in spite of the fact that castrati continued to enjoy great acclaim in London through the first two decades of the nineteenth century.

Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

Becoming more attuned to the relationship of this figure of the castrato to romantic-era culture not only revises his history in the period, namely that his elimination cannot be associated as a quintessentially romantic endeavor, but also allows us to revise our understanding of the relationship between sight and sound on which the fantasy of his elimination is at least in part based.

Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

Wordsworth's sense of sound, and coextensively the sense of sound offered by the figure of the romantic-era castrato, engenders rather than suppresses our capacity and our desire to listen to, as well as for, exceptions.

Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

We face similar stakes when we contemplate the idea of a genetically-enhanced athlete today (not to mention the bio-engineered athletes with whom we are by this point regularly confronted) as when we contemplate a romantic-era castrato.

Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

Introductory Note: Few works of romantic-era literature are more appropriate for internet publication than William Hone's The Political House that

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Then you get this image of the ballerina on toe, in these more romantic-era ballets of sylphs and unrequited love and the romantic themes that carried ballet into the 19th century.

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The dramatic feeling is similar to the emotional impact of romantic-era classical music, though the complexities of compositional arrangements are not comparable.

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February 3: romantic-era composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809), jazz saxophonist John Handy (1933), Apollo Theater regular Varetta Dillard (1933), Johnny "Guitar"

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