[Milton-L] Milton and Gardens

[Carl Bellinger]

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From: "JD Fleming" <jfleming at sfu.ca>
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> Louis, my article "Meanwhile, Medusa" (in ELH some years ago) has a bunch 
> of stuff on gardens and garden theory in it, including references. (I 
> guess this offers yet another pun on "plug.") yrs, JD Fleming
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> From: "Hannibal Hamlin" <hamlin.hannibal at gmail.com>
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> You might also want to think about this topic by way of Genesis 1-3, which 
> was of course a preoccupation of Milton's, but which also greatly 
> influenced thinking on gardens and horticulture. There is an armful (at 
> least) of books on Milton and Genesis. On gardens in particular, which I 
> happen to have been reading about recently, see Terry Comito's The Idea of 
> the Garden in the Renaissance , and Rebecca Bushnell's Green Desire: 
> Imagining Early Modern English Gardens . These are about earlier gardens, 
> of course, but would be useful on where Milton is coming from (rather than 
> where others are taking him). James Turner's The Politics of Landscape is 
> also important.
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> Hannibal
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> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Joshua Scodel < jscodel at uchicago.edu > 
> wrote:
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> Dear Louis,
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> I think John Dixon Hunt is your man: lots of books and articles on the 
> 18th-century landscape gardening, including one in Milton Studies 
> specifically on Milton's influence.
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> Best,
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> Josh
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> On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Schwartz, Louis wrote:
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> To the list:
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> I have a colleague over in the Philosophy Dept. who is doing some work on 
> the aesthetics of the landscape, and as you can imagine has been coming 
> across many references to Milton, especially in respect to the 18 th 
> Century. Since I haven’t done much thinking or work on the subject, I was 
> hoping the list might offer some suggestions about what to read on Milton 
> and the development of landscape painting and gardening or landscaping in 
> the 18 th Century and after.
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Louis
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> Louis Schwartz
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