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Gilpin, William
Gilpin, William (1724–1804), is remembered for his influential writings on the picturesque, which did much to form the taste in landscape, art, and the literary treatment of nature in the later 18th cent. and which some have seen as heralds of Romanticism. From 1768 onwards he embarked on various travels in search of the picturesque, visiting many parts of the British Isles, and produced the series of illustrated tours parodied by Combe in his Dr Syntax. His theoretical principles are set out in his Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape (1792).
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gilpin, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gilpin, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-GilpinWilliam.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gilpin, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-GilpinWilliam.html |
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Gilpin, William
Gilpin, William (1813–94), editor, soldier, and politician, figured in Western history as a soldier in the Indian wars and the Mexican War, and as first territorial governor of Colorado. He wrote two visionary works: The Central Gold Region (1860), later published as The Mission of the North American People (1873), in which he pictured the Mississippi Valley as the future home of civilization; and The Cosmopolitan Railway (1890), proposing a railway to connect America with Asia by way of the Bering Strait.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Gilpin, William." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Gilpin, William." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-GilpinWilliam.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Gilpin, William." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-GilpinWilliam.html |
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