Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index.
Introduction: expansion and contraction -- Codifying containment: the parliamentary enclosures -- Altering the prospects: Switzer, Whately, and Repton -- English georgic and British nationhood -- Philips's Cyder: Englishing the apple -- Jago's Edge-hill: simulation and representation -- Lyric art -- The kitchen-garden manual -- The poetics of the bower: Keats, Coleridge, and Hemans