A new description of pope's garden

• Autores: Malcolm Andrews
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 1, Nº 1, 1981, págs. 35-36
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A manuscript of an anonymous tourist's journal in the British Library offers a short description of Pope's Twickenham garden as it was in the summer of 1742, two years before the death of the poet.

    It has not, as far as I know, been published before, and is not mentioned in two of the most recent extended discussions of Pope and his garden.2 It predates both John Serle's A Plan of Mr. Pope's Garden (1745), and the 1748 �Epistolary Description� by the correspondent of The Newcastle General Magazine.3 Unfortunately the description adds little to what we already know of the garden before its later drastic alterations, but it raises two points of interest in relation to Pope's garden architecture.