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Don't myth Wales' rich folk history.(Features)
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Byline: By Wales on Sunday
As summer still seems a long way off, you may be looking for ways to brighten up your weekends and the South Wales Valleys have the answer with a heady mixture of myths, legends and fascinating facts.
The castles and coalmines of South Wales tell the story of a landscape which has changed dramatically over recent centuries, leaving an area rich in heritage ripe to be explored
Cyfarthfa Castle, in Merthyr Tydfil, has been described as 'the most impressive monument of the industrial iron age in southern Wales and was ...
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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PASTIMES: Master and servant; The lives of William Shenstone's servants are as fascinating as their master's, writes Chris Upton.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...exceptions to the rule. Take William Shenstone, for example. Shenstone was...published an autobiography of William Shenstone, and has detected what she...he had achieved in society, William Shenstone was by no means rich, and more...
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William Shenstone and "Flattery".(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...the poetical canon of William Shenstone (1721-69). Not...stands metonymically. Shenstone, by doing so, anticipates...and poems such as William Collins's Epistle...Simplicity (1746), like Shenstone's poem on flattery...
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Some additions to the Shenstone Canon. (Essays).
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...has posed so many editorial difficulties as William Shenstone. The variants of his poems have repeatedly...by critics, nor acknowledged as part of the Shenstone canon ("William Shenstone Papers," OSB MSS 62). It is part of a twenty...
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William Wordsworth, Landscape Architect.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle
; ...gardener" seems to have been the poet and gardener William Shenstone who created a much admired garden at the Leasowes in...retrospectively, applying it to 18th century designers like William Kent, Lancelot Brown and Humphry Repton and even to...
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The artist who made poetry in the landscape; Chris Upton looks back at the life of the English country garden's originator while Ross Reyburn finds out what has become of his creation.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; The name of William Shenstone is not guaranteed to speed up the...rises. Forgettable as a poet, William Shenstone was seminal in the art of gardening...and overstated to the next. For William Shenstone the garden was a literal embodiment...
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Reinstating name that was once great.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; William Shenstone is due to shed his image as a largely...Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. Shenstone's farmland estate covered 58 hectares...create the landscape designed by William Shenstone," said project manager Lynn Foord...
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Unnoticed echoes of Collins's "Ode to Evening" in Mary Whateley's "Elegy on the Uses of Poetry".(Essays)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...Birmingham poet and friend of William Shenstone and John Langhorne, produced...verses to Whateley's friends William Shenstone, John Langhorne, and Elizabeth...Century Poems of Mark Akenside and William Shenstone. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2002...
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PASTIMES: Village that grew into a town.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...countryside. The name of Shenstone where we start this week...book dated 1971 says that Shenstone is a 'growing village...s captains - Admiral Sir William Parker. He was in charge...gentleman for 15 years at Shenstone Lodge to the south of the...
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Rambling: Mystery of scenic village.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...Richard Shurey TThe name of Shenstone, where we start the walk...an upland site overlooking Shenstone. We read in the guide books...Nelson's last captains Sir William Parker is buried in the churchyard...these parts by purchasing Shenstone Lodge in 1812; it is now...
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Weekend: Books: A growing obsession of England; The Garden - An English Love Affair. By Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 25).(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...created by the minor poet William Shenstone (1714-1763). And...landscape gardener, Shenstone has been credited as...described in detail. Sadly Shenstone's master scheme brought...Conversational Piece, William Hogarth's 18th-century...
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