Title: The genius of the place :
Authors: Willis, Peter,; Hunt, John Dixon.
Date: 1975
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Physical description: xx, 390 p. : ill., plans, ports. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: Henry Wotton: From The elements of architecture -- Francis Bacon: Of gardens -- John Evelyn: From A letter to Sir Thomas Browne. Extracts from Evelyn's diary (late 1630s-1706). Outline of Elysium Britannicum -- Andrew Marvell: From Upon Appleton House -- John Milton: From Paradise Lost, Book IV -- Rene Rapin: From Of gardens -- John Woolridge: From Systema horti-culturae, or, The art of gardening -- Charles Cotton: From The wonders of the peake -- William Temple: From Upon the gardens of Epicurus, or, Of gardening, in the year 1685 -- Timothy Nourse: From Campania Foelix, or, A discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry -- George London and Henry Wise: From The retir#x19;d gard#x19;ner -- Roger de Piles: From Cours de peinture par principes. First translated into English by a painter -- John Vanbrugh. Reasons offer#x19;d for preserving some part of the old manor at Blenheim -- Anthony Ashley Cooper: From The moralists. From Miscellaneous reflections -- A. J. Dezallier D#x19;Argenville: From The theory and practice of gardening -- John Lawrence: From The clergy-man#x19;s recreation -- Charles Evelyn: From The lady#x19;s recreation, or, the art of gardening improv#x19;d. Joseph Addison: Papers from The Tatler and The Spectator -- Samuel Molyneux: From a Letter on Petersham Lodge -- Stephen Switzer: From Ichnographia rustica -- Lord Perceval: From A letter on Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire (9 August 1724) -- Daniel Defoe: From A tour thro#x19; the whole island of Great Britain -- B̌at Louis De Muralt: From Letters describing the character and customs of the English and French nations -- Batty Langley: from New principles of gardening -- Robert Castell: From The villas of the ancients illustrated -- James Thomson: From The seasons -- Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Bt: From The country seat -- Alexander Pope: Essay from The Guardian. Letter to Martha Blount. From An epistle to Lord Burlington -- Gilbert West: Stowe, The gardens of the right Honourable Richard Viscount Cobham -- Anonymous: From Castle Howard -- Robert Morris: From Lectures on Architecture -- Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke: From A journal of what I observed most remarkable in a tour into the north -- Joseph Warton: From The enthusiast -- William Shenstone: Account of an interview between Shenstone and Thomson -- Anonymous: An epistolary description of the late Mr. Pope#x19;s house and gardens at Twickenham -- William Gilpin: From A dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire -- Henry Fielding: From Tom Jones. Richard Pococke: From Travels through England -- Joseph Spence: Letter to the Rev. Mr. Wheeler (on gardening). From A Letter to the Duke of Newcastle (on Stourhead) -- Francis Coventry: From The World, No. 15 -- Samuel Richardson: From The History of Sir Charles Grandison -- John Shebbeare: From Letters on the English nation, letter to the Rev. Father Filippo Bonini in Rome -- William Chambers: From Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils -- William Shenstone: Unconnected thoughts on gardening -- Anonymous: From The rise and progress of the present taste in planting parks, pleasure grounds, gardens, etc. -- Thomas Whately: From Observations on modern gardening -- William Mason: From The English garden -- Horace Walpole: From A letter to Sir Horace Mann. From A letter to Richard Bentley. From The history of the modern taste in gardening -- William Chambers and William Mason: From a dissertation on Oriental gardening. An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers -- Joseph Heely: From Letters on the beauties of Hagley, Envil, and The Leasowes -- Vicesimus Knox. On the pleasures of a garden -- Thomas Jefferson: Memorandums made on a tour to some of the gardens in England -- William Gilpin: From Remarks on forest scenery -- Richard Payne Knight: From The landscape, a didactic poem -- From An analytical inquiry into the Principles of Taste -- Uvedale Price: From An essay on the picturesque -- Humphry Repton: From the Red Book for Blaise Castle. From Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening -- William Combe: From The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque -- Jane Austen: From Pride and prejudice. From Emma -- Thomas Love Peacock: From Headlong Hall.
Subject headings (LCSH): Gardens, English--History.; Gardens--Literary collections; Literature, Modern--17th century; Literature, Modern--18th century; Literature.