Figure in the landscape : poetry, painting, and gardening during the Eighteenth century

By:

Hunt, John Dixon

Publication details: London Johns Hopkins University Press 1989Description: xiv,271,ipISBN:

978080183936X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

712 HUN

Contents:

CONTENTS Preface ix Preface to the First Edition xi ONE : Green Thoughts and Shades Hermits in Their Landscapes 1 The Old Hieroglyphic Landscape 9 The New Empirical Landscape 12 Marvell's Gardens 15 Gardens of a New Model 25 Landschips . . . & Such Wilde Workes 36 Borrowed from the Poets 48 Tomorrow to Fresh Fields 57 TWO : Gardening, and Poetry, and Pope 58 Scenes for Contemplation 58 Artful Wildness to Perplex 60 My Structures Rise, My Gardens Grow 68 Multiplied Scenes 78 Public and Private Virtues 88 Professors of Gardening 100 THREE The Ingenious and Descriptive Thomson 105 The Varied God and Man's Continual Changes 105 The Finished Garden 113 Thy Villas Shine 121 The Mind's Creative Eye 130 The More Enduring Song 141 FOUR Wild and British 145 The Landscape of the Bard 145 Furnishing the Mind's Apartments 149 The Gentler Genius of the Plain 157 Descriptive and Allegoric 164 The Idiom of the Soil 171 Night Thoughts 178 Can Stow Such Raptures Raise? 185 FIVE Landscape Business 199 The Landscape of Sensibility 196 Place-Making 218 Prospects for Poetry 224 Postscript 246 Notes 251 Index 266

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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Preface to the First Edition xi
ONE : Green Thoughts and Shades
Hermits in Their Landscapes 1
The Old Hieroglyphic Landscape 9
The New Empirical Landscape 12
Marvell's Gardens 15
Gardens of a New Model 25
Landschips . . . & Such Wilde Workes 36
Borrowed from the Poets 48
Tomorrow to Fresh Fields 57
TWO : Gardening, and Poetry, and Pope 58
Scenes for Contemplation 58
Artful Wildness to Perplex 60
My Structures Rise, My Gardens Grow 68
Multiplied Scenes 78
Public and Private Virtues 88
Professors of Gardening 100
THREE The Ingenious and Descriptive Thomson 105
The Varied God and Man's Continual Changes 105
The Finished Garden 113
Thy Villas Shine 121
The Mind's Creative Eye 130
The More Enduring Song 141
FOUR Wild and British 145
The Landscape of the Bard 145
Furnishing the Mind's Apartments 149
The Gentler Genius of the Plain 157
Descriptive and Allegoric 164
The Idiom of the Soil 171
Night Thoughts 178
Can Stow Such Raptures Raise? 185
FIVE Landscape Business 199
The Landscape of Sensibility 196
Place-Making 218
Prospects for Poetry 224
Postscript 246
Notes 251
Index 266

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