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W illiam S henstone's Poetry, T he L easowes and the Intermediality of Reading and Architectural Design
Author(s) -
JUNG SANDRO
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12039
Subject(s) - poetry , reading (process) , scripting language , mythology , order (exchange) , art , architectural design , visual arts , computer science , literature , architecture , linguistics , philosophy , economics , operating system , finance
Examining the complexity of S henstone's landscape gardening project, his self‐fashioning and pastoral myth‐making, the essay will study a hitherto neglected, illustrated manuscript album of S henstone's verse, investigating the volume's intermedial remit by reading it as poetic guidebook for visitors to T he L easowes. Discussing its visual–textual strategies as related to the poet's landscape gardening, the essay will shed light on S henstone's unique scripting of a route that visitors follow in order to experience both the different loci of his monumentalised self and nature's architectural recasting.