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32 relations: Aberglasney, Alun Hoddinott, Andrew Marvell, Augustan literature, Carmarthenshire, Christopher Hussey, Claude Lorrain, Edward Dayes, Henry Gastineau, Henry James Pye, Iron Age, John Barrell, John Denham (poet), John Dyer, John Jebb (bishop), John Petts (artist), John Piper (artist), Jonathan Richardson, L'Allegro, Llangathen, Nicolas Poussin, Picturesque, Pindarics, Rachel Trickett, River Tywi, Salvator Rosa, Samuel Johnson, Topographical poetry, William Combe, William Gilpin (priest), William Sawrey Gilpin, William Wordsworth.
Aberglasney
Aberglasney House and Gardens is a medieval house and gardens set in the Tywi valley in the parish of Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, West Wales.
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 11 March 2008) was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.
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Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell (31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.
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Augustan literature
Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively.
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Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally Sir Gâr) is a unitary authority in the southwest of Wales and is the largest of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.
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Christopher Hussey
Christopher Edward Clive Hussey (21 October 1899 – 20 March 1970) was one of the chief authorities on British domestic architecture of the generation that also included Dorothy Stroud and Sir John Summerson.
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Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.
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Edward Dayes
Edward Dayes (London, 1763–1804, London) was an English watercolour painter and engraver in mezzotint.
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Henry Gastineau
Henry Gastineau (1791–1876) was an English engraver and prolific painter in water-colours.
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Henry James Pye
Henry James Pye (10 February 1744 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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John Barrell
John Charles Barrell, FBA, FEA, (born February 1943) is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies.
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John Denham (poet)
Sir John Denham FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier.
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John Dyer
John Dyer (1699 – 15 December 1757) was a painter and Welsh poet who became a priest in the Church of England.
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John Jebb (bishop)
John Jebb (7 September 1775 – 9 December 1833) was an Irish churchman and writer.
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John Petts (artist)
John Petts (10 January 1914 – 26 August 1991) was born in London, but is considered a Welsh artist, known for his engravings and stained glass.
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John Piper (artist)
John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets.
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Jonathan Richardson
Jonathan Richardson (London 12 January 1667 – 28 May 1745 London) sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son (Jonathan Richardson the Younger) was an English artist, collector of drawings, and writer on art, working almost entirely as a portrait-painter in London.
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L'Allegro
L'Allegro is a pastoral poem by John Milton published in his 1645 ''Poems''.
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Llangathen
Llangathen is a community located in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
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Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.
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Picturesque
Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.
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Pindarics
Pindarics (alternatively Pindariques or Pindaricks) was a term for a class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in England during the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century.
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Rachel Trickett
Rachel Trickett (20 December 1923 – 24 June 1999) was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991.
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River Tywi
The River Tywi (Afon Tywi) or Towy is the longest river flowing entirely within Wales.
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Salvator Rosa
Salvator Rosa (June 20 or July 21, 1615 – March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.
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Topographical poetry
Topographical poetry or loco-descriptive poetry is a genre of poetry that describes, and often praises, a landscape or place.
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William Combe
William Combe (25 March 1742 – 19 June 1823) was a British miscellaneous writer.
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William Gilpin (priest)
William Gilpin (4 June 1724 – 5 April 1804) was an English artist, Anglican cleric, schoolmaster and author, best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque.
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William Sawrey Gilpin
William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/62 – 4 April 1843) was an English artist and drawing master, and in later life a landscape designer.
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grongar_Hill
