A walk beside the Greta recollects the romantic enthusiasm of early 19th century visitors.
The 18th century landscape garden at Studley Royal as a metaphor of British imperial conquest during the Seven Years War.
A reaffirmation of watercolour painting, through the work of Ian Gardner.
4 Prelude To A Contemporary Tour
The inaugural Lakeland tour of the New Arcadians.
The Neolithic temples of West Kennet, Overton, Avebury and Silbury in Wiltshire and their surrounding barrow downs.
In praise of folly encountered on the Howgill and Mallerstang fells.
A survey of geological environments and cultural phenomena.
A homage to John Sell Cotman, in the bicentenary of his birth.
The landscape garden at Culzean Castle, on the Ayrshire coast.
The political gardening of the early 18th century as a context to the contemporary cultural gardening of Ian Hamilton Finlay, and to "The Little Spartan War".
Arcadian emblems, a metaphoric collage compiled as a lyric manifesto.
Sexual allusion in the 18th century landscape garden.
Wharfedale at Bolton Abbey.
Two Picturesque "tours" occasioned by the 40th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy.
Ian Hamilton Finlay: "The Third Reich Revisited" and "The Little Spartan War".
Poems from northern fells, largely discovered on the sheets of the walker's companionable guide, the Ordnance Survey map.
A journey through the Pennines from Skipton to Penrith, marked by the 17th century buildings of Lady Anne Clifford.
A metaphoric journey inspired by the woodland garden at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire.
The extant 18th century landscape garden designed by William Kent outside Oxford.
The 18th century landscape gardens of the Aislabie family, in North Yorkshire, respectively Classical and Sublime.
A poetic guide to Navigation, an emblematic log book to the voyage of life!
An illustrated poem.
23 Despatches From The Little Spartan War
The first three year's of the dispute between Ian Hamilton Finlay, supported by the Saint-Just Vigilantes, and Strathclyde Regional Council, over the rating of the garden temple at Little Sparta.
BLAST Folly is a polemic, occasioned by publication of the "National Trust Guide to Follies", by Jonathan Cape, during 1986. BLESS Arcadia comprises New Arcadian statements, prompted by the article by Frances Spalding, "Arcadian Egos", in Harpers and Queen, March 1986.
Robert Owen and the Landscape of Utopia: New Lanark (Scotland) and New Harmony (U. S. A.).
St. Ives and Saltaire: Landscapes designed in the context of utopian discourse during the Industrial Revolution.
A Contemplative Walk beside the Rivers Greta and Tees: from the Greta's Pennine fells to the Meeting of the Waters, at Rokeby, with the Tees; and upstream, through the Whin Sill, to Teeshead and Cross Fell, the summit of the Pennine Range.
An exploration of two contrasting landscapes: the upland Pennine fells and West Yorkshire urban communities, which are linked by the Settle-Carlisle Railway. This edition doubles as a celebration of the successful campaign to save the railway; and as the conclusion of the trilogy on model villages (see also NAJ 25 and NAJ 26).
Landscape of Epic Poetry: articulation of the political culture of the Augustan power elite, as well as the aspirations of the Howard dynasty, by landscape and architectural design.
Landscapes of Treason and Virtue: dynastic and party political rivalry within the 18th Century Gardens at Wentworth Castle (Tory/Jacobite) and Wentworth Woodhouse (Whig) in South Yorkshire.
Cajun = Acadian = Arcadian: A Gardenist Compendium of Things Arcadian (with accompanying audio cassette tape: A Cajun Musical Box).
Commerce, Empire and the Landscape Garden, Part I. The imprint of imperial celebration on the landscape of Georgian country estates, with particular reference to the Seven Years War.
Commerce, Empire and the Landscape Garden, Part II: Representations of Hercules (and Neptune) in the Culture and Garden of Augustan Britain.
"Naval Warfare", in Peasholm Park, Scarborough, as the flourishing survivor of the British parkland tradition of Naumachia, or mock naval battle in manned model warships.
Encounters with English Landscapes.
43/44 THE POLITICAL TEMPLES OF STOWE
Aspects of the political iconography of Lord Cobham and his successor, Earl Temple, c. 1730 - c. 1770, in the Elysian Fields and the Grecian Valley.
The focus is upon George Burt, the uncrowned King of Swanage, and his late nineteenth century achievement of creating Durlston Park as a Seaside Arcadia. In addition, the conservation of Durlston is compared to that of two other coastal landscapes in the Isle of Purbeck: Lulworth Castle and Tyneham. “A Proposal for Arne”, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, envisions the fourth Arcadia.
Reflections on the Sublime and on the Iconography of Ossian at the Hermitage, Dunkeld.
Sexuality and politics in the Georgian landscape gardens at Medmenham Abbey and West Wycombe.
51/52 KEW GARDENS: a controversial Georgian landscape
The cultural politics of the Princess Dowager Augusta’s pleasure grounds, 1731 – 1778.
William Shenstone and the poetics of landscape gardening at The Leasowes, Hagley and Enville, and at Little Sparta.
The innovations of Thomas and William Wentworth, father and son, respectively first and second Earls of Strafford (second creation).
57/58 The Georgian Landscape of Wentworth Castle
The innovations of Thomas and William Wentworth, father and son, respectively first and second Earls of Strafford (second creation).
59/60 Wentworth Woodhouse: A Landscape of Georgian Monuments
The innovations of Thomas and William Wentworth, father and son, respectively first and second Earls of Strafford (second creation).
61/62 Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selected Landscapes
Gardens, Parks and Cityscapes across Britain, mainland Europe and the USA.