See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• WILLIAM SHENSTONE (1714-1763)

SHENSTONE (1714-1763)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, son of See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• SHENSTONE, WILLIAM (1714-1763)

Shenstone and See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne, daughter of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• PENN, WILLIAM (1621–1670)
• PENN, WILLIAM (1644-1718)

Penn of Harborough See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, Hagley, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the Leasowes, a See also:

• PROPERTY

property in the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of See also:

• HALESOWEN

Halesowen, now in See also:

• WORCESTERSHIRE

Worcestershire, but then included in the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of See also:

• SHROPSHIRE (SALOP)

Shropshire . At school he began a See also:

• LIFE

life-See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long friendship with See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• JAGO, RICHARD (1715-1781)

Jago, and at See also:

• PEMBROKE
• PEMBROKE (Penfro)
• PEMBROKE, EARLS OF

Pembroke See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, where he matriculated in 1732, he made another See also:

• FIRM

firm friend in Richard See also:

• GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

Graves, the author of The Spiritual Quixote . He took no degree, but, while still at Oxford, he published for private circulation Poems on various occasions, written for the entertainment of the author (r737) . This edition, containing the first draft of " The Schoolmistress," Shenstone tried hard to suppress, but in 1742 he published anonymously a revised See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of The Schoolmistress, a Poem in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser ... . The See also:

• ORIGINAL

original was Sarah See also:

• LLOYD, EDWARD (1845— )
• LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627–1717)
• LLOYD, WILLIAM WATKISS (1813–1893)

Lloyd, teacher of the See also:

• VILLAGE

village school where Shenstone received his first See also:

• EDUCATION

education . See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac D'See also:

• ISRAELI, ISAAC BEN SOLOMON (9th—loth centuries)

Israeli pointed out that it should not be classed, as it was by See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• DODSLEY, ROBERT (1703-1764)

Dodsley, as a moral poem, but that it was intended as a See also:

• BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick)

burlesque, to which Shenstone appended in the first instance a " ludicrous See also:

• INDEX

index." In 1741 he published The See also:

• JUDGMENT

Judgment of See also:

• HERCULES
• HERCULES (0. Lat. Hercoles, Hercles)

Hercules . He inherited the Leasowes See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate, and retired there in 1745 to undertake what proved the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORK

work of his life, the beautifying of his property . He embarked on elaborate schemes of landscape gardening which gave the Leasowes a wide celebrity, but sadly impoverished the owner . Shenstone was not a contented recluse . He desired See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant admiration of his gardens, and he never ceased to lament his lack of fame as a poet . Shenstone's poems of nature were written in praise of her most artificial aspects, but the emotions they See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express were obviously genuine . His Schoolmistress was admired by See also:

• GOLDSMITH
• GOLDSMITH, LEWIS (c. 1763–1846)
• GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1728–1774)

Goldsmith, with whom Shenstone had much in See also:

• COMMON

common, and his `•` Elegies" written at various times and to some extent See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical in See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character won the praise of Robert See also:

• BURNS, JOHN (1858– )
• BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796)
• BURNS, SIR GEORGE

Burns who, in the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to Poems, chiefly in the Scottish See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

Dialect (1786), called him " that celebrated poet whose divine elegies do See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour to our See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, our nation and our See also:

• SPECIES

species." The best example of purely technical skill in his See also:

• WORKS

works is perhaps his success in the management of the anapaestic trimeter in his "See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

Pastoral Ballad in Four Parts " (written in 1743), but first printed in Dodsley's Collection of Poems (vol. iv., 1755) .

Shenstone died unmarried on the rrth of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1763 . His works were first published by his friend Robert Dodsley (3 vols., 1764-1769) . The second See also:

• VOLUME

volume contains Dodsley's description of the Leasowes . The last, consisting of See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence with Graves, Jago and others, appeared after Dodsley's See also:

• DEATH

death . Other letters of Shenstone's are included in Select Letters (ed . Thomas Hill1778) . The letters of See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Luxborough (nee Henrietta St See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John) to Shenstone were printed by T . Dodsley in 1775; much additional correspondence is preserved in the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum—letters to Lady Luxborough (Add . MS . 28958), Dodsley's letters to Shenstone (Add . MS . 28959), and correspondence between Shenstone and See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop See also:

• PERCY (FAMILY)
• PERCY, SIR HENRY
• PERCY, THOMAS (1729-1811)
• PERCY, THOMAS (c. 156o-16os)

Percy from 1757 to 1763—the last being of especial See also:

• INTEREST

interest .

To Shenstone was due the original See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of Percy's Reliques, a service which would alone entitle him to a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among the precursors of the romantic See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement in English literature . See also Richard Graves, Recollections of some particulars in the Life of the See also:

• LATE

Late William Shenstone (1788); H . See also:

• SYDNEY

Sydney Grazebrook, The See also:

• FAMILY

Family of Shenstone the Poet (189o) ; See also:

• LENNOX
• LENNOX, CHARLOTTE (1720-1804)
• LENNOX, MARGARET, COUNTESS OF (1515-1578)

Lennox See also:

• MORISON, JAMES AUGUSTUS COTTER (1832-1888)

Morison, " Shenstone," in the See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

Gentleman's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine (vol . 289, 1900, pp . 196-205) ; A . See also:

• CHALMERS, ALEXANDER (1759-1834)
• CHALMERS, GEORGE (1742-1825)
• CHALMERS, GEORGE PAUL (1836-1878)
• CHALMERS, JAMES (1841-1901)
• CHALMERS, THOMAS (1780-1847)

Chalmers, English Poets (1810, vol. xiii.), with ' Life " by See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

Johnson; his Poetical Works (See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, 1854), with " Life " by G . See also:

• GILFILLAN, GEORGE (1813-1878)

Gilfillan; T . D'Israeli, " The Domestic Life of a Poet—Shenstone vindicated," in Curiosities of Literature; and " Burns and Shenstone," in See also:

• FURTH

Furth in See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

Field (1894), by " See also:

• HUGH
• HUGH, ST

Hugh See also:

• HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER (1796-1865)

Haliburton " (J . L . See also:

• ROBERTSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816-1853)
• ROBERTSON, GEORGE CROOM (1842-1892)
• ROBERTSON, JOSEPH (1810-1866)
• ROBERTSON, THOMAS WILLIAM (1829-1871)
• ROBERTSON, WILLIAM BRUCE (182o-1886)

Robertson) .