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"John Dixon Hunt is a foremost writer on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. ""Gardens and the Picturesque"" collects 11 of Hunt's essays - several of them never before published - that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature ""picturesquely"". Ranging over subjects from the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual parallels within gardens, from allegorical imagery to landscape painting, these essays invoke Hunt's fascination with the idea of the garden both as a milieu - by which gardens become eloquent expressions of complex cultural ideas - and as a site of cultural translation, whereby one period shapes for its own purposes the ideas and forms inherited from its predecessors."

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John Dixon Hunt is Professor in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia and editor of the International Journal of Garden History.

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