Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness.
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By means of a thorough reading of selected literary works, John Dixon Hunt traces the rise of the art of gardening in eighteenth-century England from a new point of view, its effect on the human mind... The Figure in the Landscape should hold the attention of any reader interested in the arts and the cultural context of literature.
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No landscape garden of the eighteenth century was complete without its hermitage [plate 1] or even its hermit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressive scenery, gardening poem, beatus ille theme, iconographical images, prospect poem, engraved plan, landscape poetry, landscape garden, sublime scenery, hortus conclusus, natural scenery, various landscape Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hagley Park, Royal Society, Thomas Warton, Joseph Warton, William Kent, Salvator Rosa, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, Moral Essays, Brooke Boothby, Lake District, Lord Cobham, Minerva Medica, Robert Castell, Sayes Court, Several Persons, The Dunciad, Timon's Villa, Wilton House, Windsor Forest, Book Three, Francis Wheatley, Gilpin's Dialogue, Grongar Hill, Grub Street New!
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No landscape garden of the eighteenth century was complete without its hermitage [plate 1] or even its hermit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressive scenery, gardening poem, beatus ille theme, iconographical images, prospect poem, engraved plan, landscape poetry, landscape garden, sublime scenery, hortus conclusus, natural scenery, various landscape Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hagley Park, Royal Society, Thomas Warton, Joseph Warton, William Kent, Salvator Rosa, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, Moral Essays, Brooke Boothby, Lake District, Lord Cobham, Minerva Medica, Robert Castell, Sayes Court, Several Persons, The Dunciad, Timon's Villa, Wilton House, Windsor Forest, Book Three, Francis Wheatley, Gilpin's Dialogue, Grongar Hill, Grub Street New!
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- Essay on Man and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alexander Pope on 8 pages
- Wordsworth: Poetical Works. With Introduction and Notes. by William Wordsworth on 5 pages
- Moral Essays by Alexander Pope on 5 pages
- Poetical Works: Volume 5 (Oxford English Texts) by William Wordsworth on 4 pages
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith on page 237, page 240, and page 241
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- Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 by Beth Fowkes Tobin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- What Gardens Mean by Stephanie Ross in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Landscape And Empire, 1770-2000 by Glenn Hooper in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson by Peter Martin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain by William M. Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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