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008 930924s1994 nju b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aSB457.6$b.C64 1994
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100 1 $aCoffin, David R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90635863
245 14 $aThe English garden :$bmeditation and memorial /$cDavid R. Coffin.
260 $aPrinceton, NJ :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9405
300 $axiii, 270 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aMore so than other Europeans, the English have turned to their gardens or wooded "wildernesses" for contemplative consolation. To explore the meditative aspect of English garden-making, David Coffin combines selected poetry, diary extracts, letters, and more formal writing from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries with charming illustrations and his own perceptive commentary.
520 8 $aThe English saw the impermanence of life in "weather-beaten heads" of flowers that "not seun dayes before had flourished in their full prime," and their gardens were often decorated with sundials and ruins. Addressing not only admirers of the English garden but students of English cultural history more generally, Coffin shows that the English emphasis on transience was a key to their gardening and their literary style.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aTo nonconformists' seeking a relationship with the deity, for instance, the English garden was a confessional. For a time the concept of the medieval hermit living in solitude in the wilds of nature also became popular, but this notion lost its religious motivation, and garden hermitages were then used as sites for entertainments of various kinds.
520 8 $aThe ancient idea of burial in a garden or park was more successfully revived, however, and pyramids, obelisks, and triumphal columns commemorated the rulers, heroes, and friends of those who suffered, or enjoyed, the "English malady" of melancholy.
650 0 $aGardens, English$xHistory$y17th century.
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650 0 $aGardens$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aGardens$xSymbolic aspects$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aGardens$xSymbolic aspects$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aGarden structures$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aGarden structures$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
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