John Twyning
Biographic Data
| ID | 8910270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Twyning |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Twyning |
| SIGNATURE | TWYNING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture
The English Country Estate and the Landscape’s Nation
When considering the development of secular architecture and the reorganization of the perception of landscape through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a means of expressing national ideas, we need to confront particular generic models and conventions. As we saw in Chapter 1, Niklaus Pevsner’s highly influential Reith lecture for the BBC in 1955 entitled “The Englishness of English Art” was an attempt to identify specific fundamental tr…
Introduction
A ruined seat of hereditary authority provides a landscape through which the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge looks to reshape meaning, history, sensibility, and our affective bonds to place. Transformed from Milton’s “‘Most musical, most melancholy’ Bird!,” Coleridge gives us a communicative and inquisitive bird: a “merry Nightingale / That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates / With fast thick warble his delicious notes” (ll. 13 and 43–5). In the …
London Dispossessed
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London Dispossessed
Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture
The English Country Estate and the Landscape’s Nation
When considering the development of secular architecture and the reorganization of the perception of landscape through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a means of expressing national ideas, we need to confront particular generic models and conventions. As we saw in Chapter 1, Niklaus Pevsner’s highly influential Reith lecture for the BBC in 1955 entitled “The Englishness of English Art” was an attempt to identify specific fundamental tr…
Introduction
A ruined seat of hereditary authority provides a landscape through which the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge looks to reshape meaning, history, sensibility, and our affective bonds to place. Transformed from Milton’s “‘Most musical, most melancholy’ Bird!,” Coleridge gives us a communicative and inquisitive bird: a “merry Nightingale / That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates / With fast thick warble his delicious notes” (ll. 13 and 43–5). In the …
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