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Jan 18, 1936 Gloucester, England, United Kingdom 88 years old
British architect
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About John Dixon Hunt
- John Dixon Hunt (born 18 January 1936 in Gloucester) is an English landscape historian.
- His work particularly focuses on the time between the turn of the seventeenth through the end of the 18th centuries in France and England.
- Professor Hunt began his academic career teaching English literature.
- He is the author of many articles [not only in landscape journals but also Apollo, Lincoln Center Theater Review, and Comparative Criticism], and chapters on topics including T.
- S.
- Eliot and modern painting, Utopia in and as garden, and garden as commemoration.
- He has written numerous books which include The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination: 1848-1900 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968), his Critical Commentary on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” (Macmillan 1968), studies of Marvell, Ruskin, and William Kent, his classic Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750 (J.
- M.
- Dent, 1986), Greater Perfections (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), Picturesque Garden in Europe (Thames & Hudson, 2002), and The Afterlife of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2004), A World of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2012) and The Making of Place: Modern and Contemporary Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2015).
