| LC control no. | n 79045273 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR3677 |
| Personal name heading | Shenstone, William, 1714-1763 |
| Birth date | 1714-11-18 |
| Death date | 1763-02-11 |
| Place of birth | Halesowen (England) |
| Field of activity | Landscape gardening Leasowes (Halesowen, England) Leasowes Garden (Halesowen, England) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Gardeners |
| Found in | Poetic meaning in the eighteenth-century poems of ... and William Shenstone, 2002 The works in verse and prose... 1776: title page (William Shenstone) Wikipedia, 21 February 2018 (William Shenstone; William Shenstone (18 November 1714--11 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes; Shenstone was born at the Leasowes, Halesowen; he inherited the Leasowes estate, and retired there in 1745 to undertake what proved the chief work of his life, the beautifying of his property; he embarked on elaborate schemes of landscape gardening which gave The Leasowes a wide celebrity) |
| Associated language | eng |
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