John Dixon Hunt

Author of The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820

About the Author

John Dixon Hunt is Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and Editor of the journal, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. He is the author of many works including The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology and Perception, show more Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay and The Afterlife of Gardens. show less

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Series

Journal of Garden History

Works by John Dixon Hunt

Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture (1992) 71 copies

The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin (1982) 44 copies

Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750 (1986) 41 copies

The Picturesque Garden in Europe (2002) 34 copies

Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (2000) 29 copies

Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction (2010) 25 copies

The Oxford Book of Garden Verse (1993) — Editor — 25 copies

The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century (1989) 23 copies

A World of Gardens (2012) 22 copies

The afterlife of gardens (2004) 21 copies

Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2008) 19 copies

The Anglo-Dutch garden in the age of William and Mary (1988) 17 copies

Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Casebooks Series) (1968) — Editor — 16 copies

Andrew Marvell: His Life and Writings (1978) 13 copies

William Kent, Landscape Garden Designer: An Assessment and Catalogue of His Designs (Architects in Perspective) (1987) 12 copies

The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture) (1996) 11 copies

The Pastoral Landscape (1992) — Editor — 10 copies

The Making of Place: Modern and Contemporary Gardens (2015) 9 copies, 1 review

Site, Sight, Insight: Essays on Landscape Architecture (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) (2016) 8 copies

The Venetian city garden : place, typology, and perception (2009) 8 copies

Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art: Chapters of a New History (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) (2002) 8 copies

Encounters: A Collection of Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (1971) 8 copies

The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century (1990) 7 copies

Garden History: Issues, Approaches, Methods (1992) 7 copies

Genius Loci: An Essay on the Meanings of Place (2022) 7 copies

John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity (Renaissance Lives) (2017) 7 copies

The Vernacular Garden (1995) 6 copies

The Ruskin Polygon: Essays on the Imagination of John Ruskin (1982) 6 copies

The Pre-Raphaelite imagination 1848-1900 (1968) 5 copies

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age (2015) 5 copies

Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture (2014) 4 copies

Tennyson, In memoriam : a casebook (1970) 4 copies

Journal of garden history: An International Quarterly, Volume 17, No. 1 (1997); Techniques and uses of Garden Archaeology 3 copies

Book of Ruins (2023) 3 copies

The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century (1976) 3 copies

A critical commentary on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' 2 copies

The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place (2021) 2 copies

Trois Regards sur la Pasage Francais 1 copy

Journal of Garden History: An International Quaterly (Volume 1, Number 4 dec 81), Volume 2 Number 1,2,3,4( mrt 82 - dec 82) (1981) 1 copy

The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination (Landmark Edition) (1977) 1 copy

Greater Perfection: The Practice of Gaarden Theory 1 copy

The immediate garden & the larger landscape : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Symposium VI 1 copy

“Style and Idea in Anglo-Dutch Gardens” (1928) 1 copy

"Ut pictura poesis, the Picturesque, and John Ruskin" 1 copy

Bernard Lassus in Eden 1 copy

A critical commentary on Shakespeare's The tempest. (1968) 1 copy

Studies in The History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly: Volume 19, Number 1, January-March 1999 (2003) 1 copy

Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 1 copy

Journal of Garden History Volume 4 Number 1 Jan.-March 1984 Bomarzo ‘TWO COPIES” 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

The Country Wife (1675) — Editor, some editions; Editor, some editions — 624 copies, 9 reviews

La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany (2001) 50 copies

On the Making of Gardens (2003) — Foreword, some editions — 35 copies

On the Nature of Things (2000) — Foreword — 17 copies

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