James A. Winn             

Scholar:                                                                                                                                                                 Flutist:

Appointment as William Fairfield Warren Professor                                                            Next public concert:
Recent Publications:                                                                                                                    21 March 2010: Newton
The Poetry of War   (Cambridge, 2008)                                                                         Free Library, Newton, MA
Read a review in Choice.                                                                                                          with David Kopp, piano
Read a review in the                                                                                                                            Works by J. S. Bach,
Journal of Military History.                                                                                                     Schumann, Hindemith,
Read a review in Essays in Criticism                                                                                                        and Prokofieff
Listen to BBC program                                        
on Dryden and Purcell.                                                                                                                                  
Learn about
Work in Progress.

 Academic Profile                                                                            Curriculum Vitae                                                              Musical Profile

Musical selection of the month:
Martinu, Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano,
with David Kopp, piano, and Kacy Clopton, cello.
Video clip from YouTube
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Background image: Anne Killigrew,
Venus Adorned by the Graces, c. 1684    

Poem of the month:

                          Mind

Mind in its purest play is like some bat
That beats about in caverns all alone,
Contriving by a kind of senseless wit
Not to conclude against a wall of stone.

It has no need to falter or explore;
Darkly it knows what obstacles are there,
And so may weave and flitter, dip and soar
In perfect courses through the blackest air.

And has this simile a like perfection?
The mind is like a bat. Precisely. Save
That in the very happiest intellection
A graceful error may correct the cave.

                                      —Richard Wilbur

6 November 2009