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William Shenstone (1714 - 1763 / England)
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Born in 1714 in Halesowen (now Worcestershire) England living at the family home 'The Leasowes'. Halesowen, which, up to the early years of the 18th .. more >>
11 poems of William Shenstone
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1      A Pastoral Ballad
2      A Pastoral Ballad I: Absence
3      A Pastoral Ballad II: Hope
4      A Pastoral Ballad III: Solicitude
5      A Pastoral Ballad IV: Disappointment
6      Ode to a Young Lady
7      The Beau to the Virtuosos
8      The Landskip
9      The School-mistress. In Imitation of Spenser (excerpt)
10      The Speeches of Sloth and Virtue
11      Written at an Inn at Henley
        
 

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William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the ...
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William Shenstone Born: 18-Nov-1714. Birthplace: Leasowes, Halesowen, Shropshire , England Died: 11-Feb-1763. Location of death: Leasowes, Halesowen, ...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on William Shenstone (English connoisseur ), a representative 18th-century English “man of taste.
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  ''Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.''
William Shenstone (1714-1763), British poet. Written at an Inn at Henley (l. 21-24). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur ...
 
  To thee, fair Freedom! I retire
From flattery, cards, and dice, and din:
Nor art thou found in mansions higher
Than the low cot, or humble inn.

'Tis here with boundless pow'r...
William Shenstone (1714-1763), British poet. Written at an Inn at Henley (l. 1-8). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Qu...

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