The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth CenturyEighteenth century England saw the rise of a peculiarly English art form landscape gardening and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the antural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had a tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the free English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace