John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania. Among his numerous books are The Afterlife of Gardens and Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"John Dixon Hunt loves to be in gardens, as do many of us who design and build them. But Hunt brings to his visits a critical, informed eye that is founded on his background in literary and art history, and it is this difference that makes him so valuable to the field of landscape architecture." (Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette, from the Foreword)

• Foreword-Peter Walker and Jane Brown GillettePrefaceChapter 1. The Lie of the LandChapter 2. Near and Far, and the Spaces in BetweenChapter 3. Stourhead Revisited and the Pursuit of Meaning in GardensChapter 4. Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern GardeningChapter 5. John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois Walked into a Bar . . .Chapter 6. Folly in the GardenChapter 7. Jardins: Reflections on the Human ConditionChapter 8. Between Garden and LandscapeChapter 9. Ekphrasis: DÉjÀ Vu All Over AgainChapter 10. Preservation in the Sphere of the Mind: Duration and MemoryChapter 11. "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief"Afterword. From Illustration to LandscapeNotesIndex

John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania. Among his numerous books are The Afterlife of Gardens and Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"John Dixon Hunt loves to be in gardens, as do many of us who design and build them. But Hunt brings to his visits a critical, informed eye that is founded on his background in literary and art history, and it is this difference that makes him so valuable to the field of landscape architecture." (Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette, from the Foreword)

• Foreword-Peter Walker and Jane Brown GillettePrefaceChapter 1. The Lie of the LandChapter 2. Near and Far, and the Spaces in BetweenChapter 3. Stourhead Revisited and the Pursuit of Meaning in GardensChapter 4. Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern GardeningChapter 5. John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois Walked into a Bar . . .Chapter 6. Folly in the GardenChapter 7. Jardins: Reflections on the Human ConditionChapter 8. Between Garden and LandscapeChapter 9. Ekphrasis: DÉjÀ Vu All Over AgainChapter 10. Preservation in the Sphere of the Mind: Duration and MemoryChapter 11. "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief"Afterword. From Illustration to LandscapeNotesIndex

John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania. Among his numerous books are The Afterlife of Gardens and Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"John Dixon Hunt loves to be in gardens, as do many of us who design and build them. But Hunt brings to his visits a critical, informed eye that is founded on his background in literary and art history, and it is this difference that makes him so valuable to the field of landscape architecture." (Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette, from the Foreword)

• Foreword-Peter Walker and Jane Brown GillettePrefaceChapter 1. The Lie of the LandChapter 2. Near and Far, and the Spaces in BetweenChapter 3. Stourhead Revisited and the Pursuit of Meaning in GardensChapter 4. Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern GardeningChapter 5. John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois Walked into a Bar . . .Chapter 6. Folly in the GardenChapter 7. Jardins: Reflections on the Human ConditionChapter 8. Between Garden and LandscapeChapter 9. Ekphrasis: DÉjÀ Vu All Over AgainChapter 10. Preservation in the Sphere of the Mind: Duration and MemoryChapter 11. "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief"Afterword. From Illustration to LandscapeNotesIndex