{"id":554,"date":"2016-05-13T18:41:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T22:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=554"},"modified":"2017-01-02T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T20:13:18","slug":"suid150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"[Jane Waldie], <i>Sketches Descriptive of Italy in the Years 1816 and 1817<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=150 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd> Rome<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> [Waldie, Jane]<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Sketches Descriptive of Italy in the Years 1816 and 1817<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 3:281-2<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">4 vols.<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd> Murray<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1820<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>[281] The talent of Improvis\u00e8-ing, I conceive to have very little connexion with poetry, though a great deal with rhyme; and, if the verses composed by the members of the Poetical Academies may be taken as a fair sample of the taste and the talents now in existence, no country can be at a lower ebb. [&#8230;] the sensibility of the Italians does not appear to me to lead them to poetry.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[282] [in contrast to England:] [&#8230;] where cultivation of mind is joined to domestic virtue, and the best and sweetest impulses of nature are guarded by the high tone of public morals, and the devotedness of private affections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> AE<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waldie suggests that poetic improvisation as practised in Italian Academies has less to do with poetry than with rhyme. She contrasts Italian sensibilities with English ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}