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Shenstone, William

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Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

English poet and essayist. His works include Poems upon Various Occasions 1737, The Judgement of Horatio 1741, the Spenserian The Schoolmistress 1742, elegies, odes, songs, and ballads.

Shenstone was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire, and studied at Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Samuel Johnson. After 1745 he took up landscape gardening, and his country estate at the Leasowes was noted for its ornate grounds.



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