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William Shenstone 1714-63, English poet and landscape gardener. The Schoolmistress (1742), his best-known poem, was written in imitation of Spenser. His home, "Leasowes," in Shropshire, was a notable example of 18th-century landscaping.

Bibliography: See his life and works, ed. by G. Gilfillan (1854, repr. 1968).

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Shenstone, William (1714–63), poet, essayist and landscape gardener of the Leasowes, Halesowen, published his Poems Upon Various Occasions (1737) and established his reputation with The Judgement of Hercules (1741) and The Schoolmistress (1742). His poetic works included elegies, odes, songs, ballads, and levities, the most famous being ‘A Pastoral Ballad’ and ‘Lines written at an Inn’. From 1743 he transformed the Leasowes, a grazing farm, into a ferme ornée, an early example of a natural landscape garden. His poetry, mainly pastoral in treatment, was popular in the 18th cent.; his ‘Essays on Men and Manners’, in the style of La Rochefoucauld, included his views on ‘landskip gardening’; his essay on elegy contributed to the development of that form.

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