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Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form—landscape gardening—and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the antural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had a tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regulari
- Author
- Hunt, Prof John Dixon
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801817953
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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