Arcadian visions : pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape /
Ruff, Allan R.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.
The classical origins of Arcadia -- Virgil: the house, garden and landscape -- The Christian world and Arcadia -- Venice and the pastoral landscape -- Rome and the pastoral landscape -- The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of landscape -- Changes to the pastoral vision in eighteenth-century England -- Arcadia and the pastoral landscape realised -- The happy rural life -- The coming of the picturesque and the romantics -- The pastoral vision and the American dream -- America and religious pastoral -- Ruskin, Morris and the Garden City -- Pastoral visions of England and the First World War -- The workers' pastoral -- Arcadia revisited: the ecological landscape -- Eco-pastoral: the pastoral redefined -- Final thoughts.
Pastoral art
Pastoral literature.
Arcadia in art.
Arcadia in literature.