English Garden

Hans von Trotha is a German historian, novelist and journalist who spent ten years as editorial director of the Nicolai publishing house in Berlin. He is regarded as a specialist in the landscape gardens of the eighteenth century. Since then, he has worked independently as a curator, publicist, and consultant in the field of culture, including as a freelance journalist for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. In 2020-2021, he was a curator of the Moosbrand Music and Literature Festival of the Nantesbuch Foundation. His books, The English Garden and Pollak's Arm have been translated into English.

• The English Garden Tour // 1Palladian Revival, or the germ cell CHISWICK HOUSE, LONDON // 17Gothic Revival, or the house of the book STRAWBERRY HILL, TWICKENHAM // 31Grand Tour in miniature, or the serpentine and haha surprises ROUSHAM HOUSE, OXFORDSHIRE // 41Aeneas Wiltshire, or 'Et in Arcadia ego' STOURHEAD, WILTSHIRE // 49Palladio four times over and a trip across the Styx, or the triumph of the Dilettanti WEST WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE // 59The attractions of space, or how a village street became a terrace CASTLE HOWARD, YORKSHIRE // 71Garden and landscape, or how to approach a ruin STUDLEY ROYAL, YORKSHIRE // 83When pictures learnt to walk, or a short history of the terrace DUNCOMBE AND RIEVAULX TERRACE, YORKSHIRE // 91A steady foot and a steady head, or excursion to the Alps and Tahiti HAWKSTONE PARK, SHROPSHIRE // 99Freedom, Elysium and satire, or 'the best ideas of Paradise that can be' STOWE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE // 107The riverless bridge, or a contest between gigantomaniacs BLENHEIM, OXFORDSHIRE // 121Lady Nature's second husband, or a walk into infinity PETWORTH, SUSSEX // 133Other landscape gardens in England // 141Some English gardens in Germany // 143Bibliography // 149