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Alexander Pope: Garden
Alexander Pope came to live in Twickenham in the spring of 1719. He took a lease of some riverside land owned by Thomas Vernon of Twickenham Park. At that time Pope was the preeminent English poet; he also wrote about gardens, advised his friends on the disposition of their estates, and created his own garden at at Twickenham, beginning in 1719. Grotto -
Loudon, John Claudius
The rise of increasingly naturalistic style of landscape gardening had ground to a halt in the early part of the nineteenth century. Large landowners could not afford to undertake major improvements to their estates. Landscape designers following in the wake of Lancelot Brown, such as John Claudius Loudon, had to look for new types of clients and found them amongst the burgeoning middle class. Their modest urban villas and gardens required a new approach. Called 'gardenesque', this aimed to marr