TY - GEN AU - Hunt, John Dixon TI - Figure in the landscape : poetry, painting, and gardening during the Eighteenth century SN - 978080183936X U1 - 712 PY - 1989/// CY - London PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - N1 - 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 ER -