Garden and Grove: Italian Renaissance Garden and the English Imagination, 1600-1750 - Hardcover
Hunt, John Dixon. Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750. London / Melbourne, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1986. 19.5 cm x 25 cm. XIX, 268 pages including many illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: The garden on the Grand Tour / Classical ground and classical gardens / Ovid in the garden / Garden and theatre / Cabinets of curiosity / Elizabethan beginnings / Jacobean garden mania / Grottoes / Wilton House gardens / Evelyn at Wotton and Albury / Aubrey and 'variety' / The scientific garden / After 1688... / How English was the English Landscape Garden? Castell, Burlington, and Pope / Kent etc. John Dixon Hunt is an English-born landscape historian. His work particularly focuses on the time between the turn of the seventeenth through the end of the 18th centuries in France and England. Professor Hunt began his academic career teaching English literature. He is the author of innumerable articles [not only in landscape journals but also Apollo, Lincoln Center Theater Review, and Comparative Criticism], and chapters on topics including T. S. Eliot and modern painting, Utopia in and as garden, and garden as commemoration. He has written numerous books which include The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination: 1848-1900 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968), his Critical Commentary on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (Macmillan 1968), studies of Marvell, Ruskin, and William Kent, his classic Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750 (J. M. Dent, 1986), Greater Perfections (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), Picturesque Garden in Europe (Thames & Hudson, 2002), and The Afterlife of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2004), A World of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2012) and The Making of Place: ..
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- PublisherLondon / Melbourne, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1986.
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0460046810
- ISBN 13 9780460046817
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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