Figure in the Landscape

John Dixon Hunt is director of the Center for Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks. His many books include The Pre-Raphaelite Imagintion: 1848-1900, The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin, and William Kent: Landscape Garden Architect.

By means of a thorough reading of selected literary works, John Dixon Hunt traces the rise of the art of gardening in eighteenth-century England from a new point of view, its effect on the human mind... The Figure in the Landscape should hold the attention of any reader interested in the arts and the cultural context of literature. Eighteenth Century Studies

• PrefacePreface to the First EditionPart I. Green Thoughts and ShadesChapter 1. Hermits in Their LandscapesChapter 2. The Old Hieroglyphic LandscapeChapter 3. The New Empirical LandscapeChapter 4. Marvell's GardensChapter 5. Gardens of a New ModelChapter 6. Landschips& Such Wilde Workes Chapter 7. Borrowed from the PoetsChapter 8. Tomorrow to Fresh FieldsPart II. Gardening, and Poetry, and PopeChapter 9. Scenes for ContemplationChapter 10. Artful Wildness to PerplexChapter 11. My Structures Rise, My Gardens GrowChapter 12. Multiplied ScenesChapter 13. Public and Private VirtuesChapter 14. Professors of GardeningPart III. The Ingenious and Descriptive ThomsonChapter 15. The Varied God and Man's Continual ChangesChapter 16. The Finished GardenChapter 17. The Villas ShineChapter 18. The Mind's Creative EyeChapter 19. The More Enduring SongPart IV. The Landscape of the BardChapter 20. Wild and BritishChapter 21. Furnishing the Mind's ApartmentsChapter 22. The Gentler Genius of the PlainChapter 23. Descriptive and AllegoricChapter 24. The Idiom of the SoilChapter 25. Night ThoughtsChapter 26. Can Stow Such Raptures Raise?Part V. The Landscape of SensibilityChapter 27. Landscape BusinessChapter 28. Place-MakingChapter 29. Prospects for PoetryPostscriptNotes Index