Title & Author:

The genius of the place : the English landscape garden, 1620-1820 / edited by John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis.

Edition:

First MIT Press paperback edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [1988]
©1988.

Description:

xx, 392 pages, 101 plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published: London : Elek, 1975.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-383), and index.
Introduction -- Part one. Prelude : the seventeenth century and the reign of Queen Anne ; "The Elements of Architecture" (1624) / Henry Wotton -- "Of Gardens" (1625) / Francis Bacon -- Letter to Sir Thomas Browne (1657) ; Excerpts from Evelyn's diary (late 1630s-1706) ; Outline of "Elysium Britannicum" (1699) / John Evelyn -- "Upon Appleton House" (early 1650s) / Andrew Marvell -- "Paradise Lost," book IV (1667) / John Milton -- "Of Gardens" (1673) / René Rapin -- "Systema Horti-Culturae : or The Art of Gardening" (1677) / John Woolridge -- "The Wonders of the Peake" (1681) / Charles Cotton -- "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus : or, Of Gardening, in the Year 1685" (1692) / William Temple -- "Campania Foelix : or A Discourse on the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry" (1700) / Timothy Nourse -- "The Retir'd Gard'ner" (1706) / George London and Henry Wise -- "Cours de Peinture par Principes" (1708) / Roger de Piles -- "'Reasons Offer'd for Preserving some Part of the Old Manor' at Blenheim" (1709) / John Vanbrugh -- "The Moralists" (1709) ; "Miscellaneous Reflections" (1711) / Anthony Ashley Cooper -- "The Theory and Practice of Gardening" (1712) / A. J. Dézallier D'Argenville -- "The Clergy-Man's Recreation" (1714) / John Lawrence -- "The Lady's Recreations : or The Art of Gardening Improv'd" (1717) / Charles Evelyn --
Part two. The early landscape garden ; Excerpts from "The Tattler" and "The Spectator" (1710-12) / Joseph Addison -- Letter on Petersham Lodge/New Park (1713) / Samuel Molyneux -- "Ichnographia Rustica" (1718) / Stephen Switzer -- Letter on Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire (1724) / Lord Perceval -- " A Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain" (1724-6) / Daniel Defoe -- "Letters Describing the Character and Customs of the English and French Nations" (1726) / Béat Louis de Muralt -- "New Principles of Gardening" (1728) / Batty Langley -- "The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated" (1728) / Robert Castell -- "The Seasons" (1730) / James Thomson -- "The Country Seat" (1731) / Sir John Clerk -- Essay in "The Guardian" (1713) ; Letter to Martha Blount (1724) ; "An Epistle to Lord Burlington" (1731) / Alexander Pope -- "Stowe, The Gardens of the Right Honorable Richard Viscount Cobham" (1732) / Gilbert West -- "Castle Howard" (1733) / Anonymous -- "Lectures on Architecture" (1734) / Robert Morris -- "A Journal of What I Observed Most Remarkable in a Tour into the North" (1744) / Philip Yorke -- "The Enthusiast" (1744) / Joseph Warton -- "Account of an Interview between Shenstone and Thomson" (1746) / William Shenstone -- "An Epistolary Description of the Late Mr. Pope's House and Gardens at Twickenham" (1747) / Anonymous -- "A Dialog upon the Gardens of the Right Honorable the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire" (1748) / William Gilpin -- "Tom Jones" (1749) / Henry Fielding --
Part three. The progress of gardening ; "Travels Through England" (1750-7) / Richard Pococke -- Letter to the Rev. Mr. Wheeler (1751) ; Letter to the Earl of Lincoln (1765) / Joseph Spence -- "The World", No. 15 (1753) / Francis Coventry -- "The History of Sir Charles Grandison" (1753-4) / Samuel Richardson -- "Letters on the English Nation" (1755) / John Shebbeare -- "Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils" (1757) / William Chambers -- "Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening" (1764) / William Shenstone -- "The Rise and Progress of the Present Taste in Planting Parks, Pleasure Grounds, Gardens, Etc." (1767) / Anonymous -- "Observations on Modern Gardening" (1770) / Thomas Whately -- "The English Garden" (1772-81) / William Mason -- Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1753) ; Letter to Richard Bentley (1753) ; "The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening" (1771) / Horace Walpole --
Part four. Picturesque taste and the garden ; "A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening" (1772) ; "An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers" (1773) / William Chambers and William Mason -- "Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Envil, and The Leasowes" (1777) / Joseph Heely -- "On the Pleasures of a Garden" (1779) / Vicesimus Knox -- "Memorandums Made on a Tour to Some of the Gardens in England" (1786) / Thomas Jefferson -- "Remarks on Forest Scenery" (1791) / William Gilpin -- "The Landscape, A Didactic Poem" (1794) ; "An Analytical Inquiry in the Principles of Taste" (1805) / Richard Payne Knight -- "An Essay on the Picturesque" (1794) / Uvedale Price -- "Red Book" (1795-6) ; "Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening" (1816) / Humphry Repton -- "The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque" (1809) / William Combe -- "Pride and Prejudice" (1813) ; "Emma" (1816) / Jane Austen -- "Headlong Hall" (1816) / Thomas Love Peacock.

Summary:

This anthology and commentary on the English landscape garden is intended both for the general reader and for students in the visual arts. It has arisen partly out of our needs as teachers of literature, architecture and painting to provide students with the documents upon which they can base their own thinking. But we also feel that the provision of many essential sources for the one art that England contributed to Europe since the Renaissance will enable those interested to support their studies of actual landscapes with primary literary and visual material. For this reason we have taken our texts from the original editions or manuscripts, and presented them with the minimum of editorial interference: unless otherwise indicated, extracts appear in their earliest form and are given the date of their earliest appearance.

ISBN:

0262081768 (hard)
9780262081764 (hard)
0262580926 (pbk.)
9780262580922 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gardens, English History.
Gardens Literary collections.
Literature, Modern 17th century.
Literature, Modern 18th century.
Literature, Modern.
Jardins anglais Histoire.
Jardins Anthologies.
Littérature 17e siècle Anthologies.
Littérature 18e siècle Anthologies.
Littérature 17e siècle.
Littérature 18e siècle.
Gardens.
Gardens, English.
Landschaftsgarten
Quelle
Jardins Dans la littérature.
England
England Landscape gardens, 1620-1820 - Readings from contemporary sources
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

Literature.
History.
Literary collections.
Littérature.

Added entries:

Hunt, John Dixon. editor.
Willis, Peter, 1933-2016, editor.

English landscape garden, 1620-1820
English landscape garden, sixteen twenty to eighteen twenty

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193494
Call No.: SB457.6 G46 (ID:97-B4549)
Copy: copy 1
Status: Available