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THE IMAGINATIVE DIMENSION OF AN EARLY EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY GARDEN: WENTWORTH CASTLE
Author(s) -
CHARLESWORTH MICHAEL
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
art history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8365
pISSN - 0141-6790
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2005.00482.x
Subject(s) - reign , poetics , queen (butterfly) , politics , art , art history , space (punctuation) , history , classics , literature , poetry , philosophy , law , political science , hymenoptera , linguistics , botany , biology
Responding to the implicit challenge in Stephen Bann's work to emphasize the poetics of gardens, the essay considers Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire, designed by the Earl of Strafford to be his monument. The essay finds a poetics of space at work in the domain, which guided visitors through a series of spectacular unfolding views across the Yorkshire landscape. Here Strafford commemorated the reign of Queen Anne, his own political eminence under her, and his subsequent secret political activities. In helping at a very early stage in its development to create the Gothic Revival, Strafford celebrates his own family and the renewal of Anglo‐Saxon studies in eighteenth‐century Britain.