Anonymous, The Rise and Progress of the Present Taste in Planting Parks, Pleasure Grounds and Gardens

Robert Clark (The Literary Encyclopedia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
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First circulation or publication 1767

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The Rise and Progress of the Present Taste in Planting Parks, Pleasure Grounds, Gardens&c.

is of unknown authorship but a copy was in Horace Walpole’s hands when he came to write his

The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening

(1780). The poem is relatively skilful, and interesting for its attempt to provide a chronological history of gardening in England. It shows the deep impress of Pope’s ideas about the landscape garden, as expressed in

Epistle to Burlington

, and it quotes lines 117-8 from this poem in lines 215-6, but Pope’s ethos is heard

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and especially behind lines 223-234.

The poem is also interesting for its enthusiastic engagement (ll 368-486) with Chinese gardening, which it considers a useful corrective to the blandness of the Capability Brown school. The

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Citation: Clark, Robert. "The Rise and Progress of the Present Taste in Planting Parks, Pleasure Grounds and Gardens". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 January 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11708, accessed 23 November 2024.]

Anonymous, The Rise and Progress of the Present Taste in Planting Parks, Pleasure Grounds and Gardens

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