Author: Henrietta Knight (baroness Luxborough.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Letters ... to William Shenstone
Author: Henrietta Knight (baroness Luxborough.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Letters of William Shenstone
Author: William ShenstoneThe World of William Shenstone
Author: Audrey DugganPublisher:
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Category : Gardens, English
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
William Shenstone is remembered as a poet and innovative landscape gardener, but his letters and pensees which offer a unique insight into eighteenth century life are mostly forgotten. So is the considerable work he undertook as both editor and playwright. In this readable biography, the first since the Second World War, Shenstone's life and achievements are re-examined. So are his Midland roots; the Leasowes where he lived in Halesowen, now a country park, and the friends who with him were to form the Warwickshire Coterie, a unique and tightly knit group of writers who met at Lady Luxborough's Warwickshire home, Barrels, near Henley-in-Arden. At the time of his death, Shenstone was about to be awarded a pension for his services to literature and from this study he reemerges, not only as the multi talented gentleman of letters known to his contemporaries, but as a writer with special relevance for today.
Letters Written
Author: Baroness Henrietta Knight LuxboroughPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone
Author: William ShenstoneThe Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq; Vol. III.
Author: William ShenstoneWilliam Shenstone
Author: A. R. HumphreysPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521125277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
First published in 1937, Arthur Raleigh Humphreys traces the life and death of the English poet William Shenstone (1714-1763).
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Author: William ShenstoneReading 1759
Author: Shaun ReganPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611484782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this crucial year. Offering broad coverage of the year's work in writing, these essays examine key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, along with such group projects as the Encyclop die and the literary review journals of the mid-eighteenth century. Organized around a cluster of key topics, the volume reflects the concerns most important to writers themselves in 1759. This was a year of the new and the modern, as writers addressed current issues of empire and ethical conduct, forged new forms of creative expression, and grappled with the nature of originality itself. Texts written and published in 1759 confronted the history of Western colonialism, the problem of prostitution in a civilized society, and the limitations of linguistic expression. Philosophical issues were also important in 1759, not least the thorny question of causation; while, in France, state censorship challenged the Encyclop die, the central Enlightenment project. Taking into its purview such texts and intellectual developments, Reading 1759 puts the literary culture of this singular, and singularly important, year on the scholarly map. In the process, the volume also provides a self-reflective contribution to the growing body of "annualized" studies that focus on the literary output of specific years.
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