Gardens of misery and perfection: introducing an annotated bibliography

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). 2. My general contention that fictional gardens shadow our understanding of real gardens owes much to the inspiration of Gina Crandell, who explains how the developments of the visual arts changed forever the way we experience real landscapes in Nature Pictorialized: ‘The View’ in Landscape History (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). Crandell shows how culture influences our perceptions of landscape as much as the survival-driven determinants considered by such texts as Jay Appleton's Experience of Landscape, rev. ed. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996) or the functional considerations addressed by almost any office-generated project description. 3. (New York: Penguin, 2003), p. 37. 4. Scott Elledge further explicates Milton's description of Paradise in the second Norton Critical Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), p. 472. This edition includes Frank Kermode's essay, ‘Adam Unparadised’, which discusses Milton's sources for the Garden of Eden. Quotations are from Elledge's edition. 5. Ibid., p. 599. 6. The Return of Eden: Five Essays on Milton's Epics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965), p. 41. Frye points out that: • Milton always externalizes evil and internalizes good (p. 109); • the Miltonian paradise is Arcadian and pastoral, not Utopian and historical, that is, not a social construct where man can live a better life (p. 114); and • the goal of mankind is the recovery of identity, ‘not the feeling that I am myself and not another, but the realization that there is only one man, one mind, and one world’ (p. 143). 7. (New York: Penguin, 1998), p. 12. 8. For the terrible consequences of this garden rendezvous, see Maud in Alfred Lord Tennyson, Selected Poems (London: Penguin Books, 1991), pp. 231ff. 9. See Hugh Haughton, introduction, Carroll, pp. lxxvi ff. 10. A Whistling Woman (New York: A. A. Knopf, 2002), pp. 139–140. 11. The Virgin in the Garden (New York: Vintage, 1992), p. 128. 12. Still Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 9. 13. Babel Tower (New York: Random House, 1997), p. 522.