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In Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding describes the home of the retiring Mr Wilson with obvious approval: ‘No parterres, no fountains, no statues, embellished this little garden’. And Parson Adams agrees, ‘declaring that this was the manner in which the people had lived in the golden age’.1 The lack of the elements of a formal garden here is seen as characteristic of paradise or, since Adams is a classicist, of the locus amoenus.
This essay is a shorter version of part of an article forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance. I am grateful to the editors of both publications for permission to publish this essay.
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Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, ed. Arthur Humphreys (London, 1973) (Book iii, Ch. 4), pp. 174–8. Place of publication is London unless otherwise indicated.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic (Princeton, 1966 ).
Roy Strong, The Renaissance Garden in England (1979), p. 50.
Robert Laneham (or Langham), A letter, ed. R.J.P. Kuin (Leiden, 1983 ), p. 71.
Montaigne, Oeuvres complètes, ed. Robert Barral and Pierre Michel (Paris, 1967), p. 484.
See H.V.S. Ogden, ‘The principles of variety and contrast in seventeenth-century aesthetics, and Milton’s poetry’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 10 (1949), pp. 159–82.
Clare Williams, Thomas Platter’s Travels in England (1937), pp. 195–7.
See David Coffin, ‘The “Lex hortorum” and access to gardens of Latium during the renaissance’, Journal of Garden History, 2 (1982), pp. 201–32.
Sir Henry Wotton, Elements of architecture, 1624, ed. Frederick Hard [Folger Documents of Tudor and Stuart Civilization] (Charlottesville, 1968), pp. 109–10.
C.S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (Oxford, 1936), p. 331.
See John Dixon Hunt, ‘Milton and the making of the English landscape garden’, Milton Studies, 15 (1981), pp. 81–105.
See Claudia Lazzaro-Bruno, ‘The Villa Lante at Bagnaia: an allegory of art and nature’, Art Bulletin, 59 (1977), pp. 553–60.
See C.W. Lemmi, ‘The influence of Trissino on the Faerie Queene’, Philological Quarterly, 7 (1928), pp. 220–3.
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Leslie, M. (1991). Gardens of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Landscape, and Literature in the English Renaissance. In: Hunter, L. (eds) Towards A Definition of Topos. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11502-0_2
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