Chronological overview

Author(s)

• Charlesworth, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Chronological overview

（The Helm Information literary sources & documents series, . The English garden : literary sources & documents / edited and with an introduction by Michael Charlesworth ; v. 1, v. 3）

Helm Information, c1993

• 1550-1730
• 1772-1910

Other Title

The English garden : literary sources and documents

Note

Bibliography: v. 1, p. 47-57

Includes index

Contents of Works

• 1550-1730. A hundred points of good husbandry / Thomas Tusser
• A most briefe and pleasaunt treatise / Didymus Mountain (Thomas Hill)
• A letter / Robert Laneham
• Travels in England / Thomas Platter
• The English husbandman / Gervase Markham
• A new orchard and garden / William Lawson
• Of gardens / Francis Bacon
• Francis Bacon / John Aubrey
• The rock at Enstone / Thomas Bushell
• Thomas Bushell / John Aubrey
• Enstone, and notes on some other Oxfordshire gardens / Robert Plot
• Wilton garden / Isaac de Caus
• 'The dignity of fruit trees', and 'The spiritual use of an orchard' / Ralph Austen
• Three poems / Andrew Marvell
• The garden / Abraham Cowley
• The garden of Cyrus / Sir Thomas Browne
• Observations on grafting / Sir Thomas Browne
• Paradise / John Milton
• Diary and letters / John Evelyn
• Systema horti-culturae / John Worlidge
• Of gardening in the year 1685 / Sir William Temple
• Gardens found on journeys / Celia Fiennes
• An essay country-house / Timothy Nourse
• A landscape of Trojan nostalgia / John Dryden, after Publius Virgilius Maro
• Nature enthusiasts / Antony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
• From The Spectator / Joseph Addison
• From The Guardian / Alexander Pope
• The preface / John Laurence
• Ichnographia Rustica / Stephen Switzer
• Design for a cascade at Spy Park / Stephen Switzer
• New principles of gardening / Batty Langley
• Letters to the Earl of Strafford about gardening activities / John Arnold and William Wentworth
• 'Mea regna' : the garden at Grantham / William Stukeley
• 1772-1910. Observations made in the year 1772 / William Gilpin
• Hawkestone / Samuel Johnson
• Letters on the beauties of envil / Joseph Heely
• Columella / Richard Graves
• A new description of Blenheim / William Mavor
• Hawkestone / Lady Elizabeth Sykes
• A tour / Richard Warner
• Extracts from the red book for Wentworth Woodhouse / Humphry Repton
• An enquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening / Humphry Repton
• Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening / John Claudius Loudon
• Letters to Lady Beaumont / William Wordsworth
• A tour in quest of genealogy, thro' several parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, in a series of letters to a friend in Dublin / Richard Fenton
• Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening / Humphry Repton
• Cottage economy / William Cobbett
• The English gardener / William Cobbett
• Six gardens / William Cobbett
• Gleanings on gardens / Samuel Felton
• Virginia Water, Stourhead and Fonthill abbey / J. C. Loudon
• An essay on imitation in the fine arts / Quatremère de Quincy
• The suburban gardener and villa companion / J. C. Loudon
• On the growth of plants in closely glazed cases / Nathaniel Ward
• How to lay out a garden / Edward Kemp
• On colour ... with remarks on laying out dressed geometrical gardens / J. Gardner Wilkinson
• On colour in tree scenery, and cottage garden association / William Paul
• The wild garden / William Robinson
• The formal garden in England / Reginald Blomfield
• Garden design and architects' gardens / William Robinson
• Wood and garden / Gertrude Jekyll
• The garden beautiful / William Robinson
• Colour in the flower garden / Gertrude Jekyll
• The history of the English garden / Thomas H. Mawson
• General principles of garden design / Richard Sudell
• Through my garden gate / Newman Flower

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In a country with a long and vigorous tradition of making gardens of all sizes, dating back to long before the Renaissance, and then of writing about the gardens that have been made, no single collection could ever cover all the literature available. There exists a vast record of responses to gardens on many different levels: as the providers of food and sensory stimulus; as the material for philosophical and religious meditation; as landscapes, that is, aesthetic objects designed to chiefly to be looked at; as sites for imaginative play and escapades. The sources and documents collected in these volumes are representative of these responses, and can be grouped in three broad categories: there are many descriptions of historical gardens, which blend visitors' responses with attempts to describe the gardens visited; there are "prescriptions" by writers of what ideal gardens "should" look like, many fanciful and some philosophically serious; finally, there are "meditations" on gardens and the processes of garden-making, which attempt to reach different, more rigorous or more suggestive levels of response. These categories have not been separated out from each other - they are mixed up within the chronological and thematic progressions in order to allow the full intertextual play of the discourse to emerge. "Volume 1" covers the late-16th, 17th and early-18th centuries which saw the creation of the idea that gardens could be terrains that were morally, as well as physically important. As garden-makers on different social levels, from yeoman farmers to arstocrats and monarchs, publicized and reflected in their work, there is seen a variety of motivations, from snobbery to scientific impulse, from religion to the pursuit of beautiful, earthly places, combining to assert the high moral and aesthetic possibilities of gardening and gardens as areas for representation. "Volume 2" breaks from a chronological sequence to group into themes the material about the crucially important 18th century. It opens with a section about important specific gardens - the socially and intellectually influential garden of Queen Caroline at Richmond (1732), that of the poet Alexander Pope, and the gardens of Stowe which belonged to an aristocrat active in government, military and cultural fields. Themes of cultural politics unfold around many more examples, some canonical, some associated with famous gardeners, such as Lancelot "Capability" Brown, and others which are much less known and even obscure. Certain source materials are presented for the first time. A major section deals with theoretical works of the period 1768-1772, which can be regarded in some senses as the high-water mark for gardens as aesthetically, morally and politically engrossing domains. The volume concludes with consideration of the legal status of gardens, and the poetry of protest against acts of landscape gardening. "Volume 3" returns to a chronological progression to chart the subsequent history of garden literature in England. There are responses from poets, jobbing gardeners, an Egyptologist and architects. The volume reflects both the responses of visitors, such as Samuel Johnson, Wiliam Gilpin and William Cobbett, and the active presences of Humphry Repton and J.C. Loudon who intervened both practically and theoretically to change the course of garden-making. Selections after 1850 become necessarily less comprehensive, focusing simply on the late debate about the art of gardens undertaken by Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson and Reginald Blomfield, and including items that begin to intimate some of the major currents in conceptions of gardens in the 20th century, when traditional ideas about scale, representation and integrity became fragmented. Taken together, these three volumes provide a resource of primary" source material for students and researchers in the fields of English literature, garden and architectural history and English social history.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1 A chronological overview 1550-1730: Elizabethan polarities
• contructing the moral domain
• taking stock
• blueprints and critiques
• professional opinions
• "my own territories"
• Volume 2 The 18th century - opinions, decriptions and controversies: Queen Caroline's Hermitage at Richmond Gardens
• Alexander Pope's garden and garden writing
• Stowe
• brief descriptions 1732-1765
• aesthetic judgements 1752-1771
• William Shenstone and the Leasowes
• brief descriptions 1760-1770
• theoretical writings 1768-1772
• Lancelot "Capability" Brown
• the law and gardens
• protests against landscape gardening and enclosure. Volume 3 Chronological overview 1772-1910.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA22001667
• ISBN:
  • 1873403119
  • 1873403119
• LCCN: 94159679
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Mountfield, East Sussex, U.K.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1111.G3
  • DC20 : 820.8047126
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gardens, English -- Literary collections
  • LCSH : Gardening -- England -- History -- Sources
  • LCSH : Gardens -- England -- History -- Sources
  • LCSH : English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700
  • LCSH : English literature -- 18th century
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20406089