Buildings and Monuments Tour

Virtual Walking Tour

Virtual Reality Panoramas

History of the Gardens

Ha-Ha Restoration Project

Glossary of Gardening Terms

Print Resources

The National Trust

Other Links

Poetry and Prose featuring
Stowe Landscape Gardens

Contemporary Poetry and Prose

• William Congreve, Of Improving the Present Time (1728)
• William Gilpin, A Dialogue upon . . . The Gardens at Stowe (1748)
  [Includes Pop-up Windows Showing Garden Features]
• Alexander Pope, from Epistle to Burlington (1731)
• James Thomson, from The Seasons: Autumn (1730)
• Gilbert West, Stowe (1732)
  [Includes Links to Individual Pages on Garden Features]

Papers of my own

• Reflections on Pope and the Gardens at Stowe
• The Invisible Border between Art and Nature
• Sexual Politics in the Western Garden at Stowe
  

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John D. Tatter, Birmingham-Southern College, jtatter@bsc.edu