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Shenstone, William, 1714-1763

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79045273

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http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n79045273

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https://isni.org/isni/0000000083759186

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Shenstone, William, 1714-1763
William Shenstone Label from public data source Wikidata
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500030162

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found: Poetic meaning in the eighteenth-century poems of ... and William Shenstone, 2002

found: The works in verse and prose... 1776:title page (William Shenstone)

found: 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)

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1979-06-13: new
2025-08-05: revised

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