Imparadised
Colin Burrow: Cultivation and desire in Renaissance gardens, 19 February 2004
Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens
by Rebecca Bushnell.
Cornell, 198 pp., £18.95, August 2003,0 8014 4143 9 Show More
by Rebecca Bushnell.
Cornell, 198 pp., £18.95, August 2003,
“... products of nature rather than art. Artifice was often required to create these sensual paradises: John Evelyn, at the end of the 17th century, describes how to make what he calls a ‘Phonotactic Cylinder, or giant musical box’, which used water to produce sounds similar to birdsong (the alternative was to have an aviary). The synaesthetic delights of ... ”