The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis MIT Press, 1988 M09 9 - 412 pages A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitated throughout Europe and North America. The English landscape garden is richly documented in this anthology. Over 100 illustrations accompany writings that range from Francis Bacon to Jane Austin; from the early 1600s, when Englishmen began to determine their own concept and form of the garden, through the first half of the eighteenth century when its distinctive feature emerged, to the heyday of the landscape garden under "Capability" Brown and the reactions to his pure formalism under Repton and Loudon in the 1800s. This edition contains a new introduction and bibliography covering the many developments in garden history during the last dozen years. |
Contents
Part | 47 |
JOHN EVELYN 16201706 | 57 |
ANDREW MARVELL 162178 | 70 |
JOHN MILTON 160874 | 79 |
JOHN WOOLRIDGE fl 166998 | 88 |
WILLIAM TEMPLE 162899 | 96 |
GEORGE LONDON d 1714 and HENRY WISE 16531738 | 106 |
ROGER DE PILES 16351709 | 112 |
PHILIP YORKE 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 172090 | 237 |
22 | 243 |
WILLIAM GILPIN 17241804 | 254 |
HENRY FIELDING 170754 | 260 |
JOSEPH SPENCE 16991768 | 268 |
FRANCIS COVENTRY d 1759 | 274 |
WILLIAM CHAMBERS 172396 | 283 |
WILLIAM SHENSTONE 171463 | 289 |
JOHN VANBRUGH 16641726 | 119 |
A J DÉZALLIER DARGENVILLE 16801765 | 125 |
JOHN LAWRENCE d 1732 | 132 |
JOSEPH ADDISON 16721719 | 138 |
SAMUEL MOLYNEUX 16891727 | 148 |
STEPHEN SWITZER ?16821745 | 151 |
LORD PERCEVAL 1st Earl of Egmont 16831748 | 164 |
BÉAT LOUIS DE MURALT 16651749 | 177 |
ROBERT CASTELL d 1729 | 187 |
880 | 191 |
SIR JOHN CLERK of Penicuik Bt 16761755 | 196 |
ALEXANDER POPE 16881744 | 204 |
GILBERT WEST 170356 | 215 |
ANONYMOUS | 228 |
ANONYMOUS | 298 |
THOMAS WHATELY d 1772 | 301 |
WILLIAM MASON 172597 | 308 |
WILLIAM CHAMBERS 172396 and WILLIAM MASON | 318 |
88888 | 326 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON 17431826 | 333 |
RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT 17501824 | 342 |
UVEDALE PRICE 17471829 | 351 |
HUMPHRY REPTON 17521818 | 358 |
WILLIAM COMBE 17411823 | 368 |
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 17851866 | 376 |
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