Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy 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. Eighteenth Century Studies
Table of ContentsPreface
Preface to the First Edition
Part I. Green Thoughts and Shades
Chapter 1. Hermits in Their Landscapes
Chapter 2. The Old Hieroglyphic Landscape
Chapter 3. The New Empirical Landscape
Chapter 4. Marvell's Gardens
Chapter 5. Gardens of a New Model
Chapter 6. Landschips& Such Wilde Workes
Chapter 7. Borrowed from the Poets
Chapter 8. Tomorrow to Fresh Fields
Part II. Gardening, and Poetry, and Pope
Chapter 9. Scenes for Contemplation
Chapter 10. Artful Wildness to Perplex
Chapter 11. My Structures Rise, My Gardens Grow
Chapter 12. Multiplied Scenes
Chapter 13. Public and Private Virtues
Chapter 14. Professors of Gardening
Part III. The Ingenious and Descriptive Thomson
Chapter 15. The Varied God and Man's Continual Changes
Chapter 16. The Finished Garden
Chapter 17. The Villas Shine
Chapter 18. The Mind's Creative Eye
Chapter 19. The More Enduring Song
Part IV. The Landscape of the Bard
Chapter 20. Wild and British
Chapter 21. Furnishing the Mind's Apartments
Chapter 22. The Gentler Genius of the Plain
Chapter 23. Descriptive and Allegoric
Chapter 24. The Idiom of the Soil
Chapter 25. Night Thoughts
Chapter 26. Can Stow Such Raptures Raise?
Part V. The Landscape of Sensibility
Chapter 27. Landscape Business
Chapter 28. Place-Making
Chapter 29. Prospects for Poetry
Postscript
Notes
Index
