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Character Areas Tour Poetry and Prose about the Gardens
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AcknowledgementsJohn Tatter's Stowe Web Pages
All creations exist in a web of influences. This is the true "view source" page for this Web site. In creating these Web pages I have amassed a great debt to several people, many of whom I have never met personally. My sincere thanks to the members of the Land Use Consultants who created the Stowe Garden Survey, to Michael Bevington for his book Stowe: The Gardens and The Park, to John Martin Robinson for his book Temples of Delight, and to George Clarke, Michael Gibbon, and Laurence Whistler for Stowe: A Guide to the Gardens and for the research they have conducted over the years that supported many of these other texts. Without the financial support of the grants I received from Birmingham-Southern College, and without the moral support of my Division Chair, Susan Hagen, and my Provost, Irvin Penfield, I would not have been able to pursue my study of landscape gardens: I owe them both a great debt of gratitude. Nor can I forget to thank Frank Thomson, the Head Gardener at Stowe, who offered me the chance to work and live in the garden during the summer of 1993. I would also like to thank Michael Leslie, whose lectures on landscape gardening in the summer of 1988 at Saint John's College in Oxford led me to think about connections between gardening and its sister arts that I had not yet considered; and I would like to thank John Dixon Hunt, whose books have taught me what to look for and to imagine as I visit landscape gardens. Going back even further into my educational past, I would like to thank John A. Jones, who taught me to look for connections between poetry, painting, and music in my first graduate-level survey of eighteenth-century literature. And from my undergraduate days, I would like to thank Lionel Basney, for introducing me to Dryden and Pope, and I would like to thank Jack Leax, who taught me to be sensitive to details, both in choosing my words and in laying out a page of text.
Finally, I would like to thank Jonie Adams, who continues to ask all of the right (and most difficult) questions about landscape gardens, which send me back to the sources to find the answers.
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