Download or read book William Shenstone Poet and Landscape Gardener written by Edward Munro Purkis and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The School mistress written by William Shenstone and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Retreats written by Stephen Bending and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and beautifully illustrated account follows some remarkable eighteenth-century women in their gardens.
Download or read book The English Garden written by William Mason and published by Facsimiles-Garl. This book was released on 1783 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Shenstone Poet and Landscape Gardener written by Edward Munro Purkis and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arcadian Visions written by Allan R. Ruff and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision of Arcadia and the pastoral was implanted by education among the more privileged in society. Young men spent many hours translating and learning by rote the words of Virgil and other classical authors and on the Grand Tour they would be introduced to work of painters like Poussin and Claude and their interpretations of the Ideal pastoral landscape. Today Arcadia holds as powerful an influence as at any time in the past and it is important that we plan our urban environment in ways that harmonize with the natural world. Arcadian Visions provides an alternative landscape history for all those involved with the landscape - either through its design, management, use or enjoyment. It begins by examining the origins of Arcadia and the pastoral in the classical poetry of Theocritus and Virgil, and the effects of, and on, Christianity before outlining its development in renaissance Italy and subsequently in the Netherlands, America and England. It concludes by looking at how Arcadian ecology is bringing about a reappraisal of the pastoral in the 21st century.
Download or read book William Shenstone and His Friends written by Marjorie Williams and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of William Shenstone and of His Critics written by Alice Isabel Hazeltine and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sowing Empire written by Jill H. Casid and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H.Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the "heartlands" of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as "European."
Download or read book Garden craft Old and New written by John Dando Sedding and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hermit in the Garden written by Gordon Campbell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those who took employment as garden hermits were typically required to refrain from cutting their hair or washing, and some were dressed as druids. Unlike the hermits of the Middle Ages, these were wholly secular hermits, products of the eighteenth century fondness for 'pleasing melancholy'. Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by the end of the eighteenth century, they had left their indelible mark on both the literature as well as the gardens of the period. And, as Gordon Campbell shows, they live on in the art, literature, and drama of our own day - as well as in the figure of the modern-day garden gnome. This engaging and generously illustrated book takes the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit and also around the sites of many of the surviving hermitages themselves, which remain scattered throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. And for the real enthusiast, there is even a comprehensive checklist, enabling avid hermitage-hunters to locate their prey.
Download or read book Wordsworth s Gardens written by Carol Buchanan and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counterposing poems of the garden and the letters and journals of Wordsworth and his eloquent sister Dorothy, Carol Buchanan pictures the whole Wordsworth: poet, gardener, and devoted and long-suffering family man. Illuminating Buchanan's perspective on the gardens, and on the Lake District that shaped Wordsworth's sensibilities, are three never-before-published garden plans and more than one hundred photographs."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Flowering of the Landscape Garden written by Mark Laird and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Laird offers a wealth of visual and literary materials to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.
Download or read book A History of Garden Art written by Marie Luise Schroeter Gothein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1928 highly illustrated two-volume work on garden design is regarded as among the most important surveys of its kind.
Download or read book The Garden of Ideas written by Richard Aitken and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garden of Ideas tells an inspiring and engaging story of Australian garden design. From the imaginings of emigrant garden-makers of the late eighteenth century to the concerns of twenty-first-century gardeners, this book charts its way across four centuries through a handsome and satisfying fusion of images and text. The Garden of Ideas is embellished with an unparalleled array of images - paintings, drawings, prints, plans, and photographs - each richly evocative of their time and most never previously published. Unearthed from around Australia, and many from overseas, these images carry the story of Australian garden style down the years, in the process criss-crossing social and cultural history across the wide extremes of our continent. Richard Aitken, whose book Botanical Riches was published in 2006 to popular and critical acclaim, brings a lifetime of experience to The Garden of Ideas. He achieves fresh insights and presents our passion for garden-making with wit and flair. The Garden of Ideas is a valuable source book for the sophisticated gardener and an indispensable companion for the garden lover.
Download or read book The World of William Shenstone written by Audrey Duggan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shenstone is remembered as a poet and innovative landscape gardener, but his letters and pensees which offer a unique insight into eighteenth century life are mostly forgotten. So is the considerable work he undertook as both editor and playwright. In this readable biography, the first since the Second World War, Shenstone's life and achievements are re-examined. So are his Midland roots; the Leasowes where he lived in Halesowen, now a country park, and the friends who with him were to form the Warwickshire Coterie, a unique and tightly knit group of writers who met at Lady Luxborough's Warwickshire home, Barrels, near Henley-in-Arden. At the time of his death, Shenstone was about to be awarded a pension for his services to literature and from this study he reemerges, not only as the multi talented gentleman of letters known to his contemporaries, but as a writer with special relevance for today.
Download or read book The Golden Age of the Garden written by Claire Cock-Starkey and published by Elliott & Thompson. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between England and its gardens might be described as a love affair; gardening is a national passion, rooted in history. The e18th century is often called the Golden Age of English gardening; as the fashion for formal pleasure grounds for the wealthy faded, a new era began, filled with picturesque vistas inspired by nature. Charting the transformation in English landscapes through the 18th and 19th centuries, The Golden Age of the Garden brings the voices of the past alive in newspaper reports, letters, diaries, books, essays and travelogues, offering contemporary gardening advice, principles of design, reflections on nature, landscape and plants, and a unique perspective on the origins of the English fascination with gardens. Exploring the different styles, techniques and innovations, and the creation of many of the stunning spaces that visitors still flock to see today, this is an evocative and rewarding collection for all gardeners and garden-lovers seeking insight, ideas and surprises.
