The Genius of the Place The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820

This anthology and commentary on the English landscape garden is intended both for the general reader and for students in the visual arts. It has arisen partly out of our needs as teachers of literature, architecture and painting to provide students with the documents upon which they can base their own thinking. But we also feel that the provision of many essential sources for the one art that England contributed to Europe since the Renaissance will enable those interested to support their studies of actual landscapes with primary literary and visual material. For this reason we have taken our texts from the original editions or manuscripts, and presented them with the minimum of editorial interference: unless otherwise indicated, extracts appear in their earliest form and are given the date of their earliest appearance.