John Dixon Hunt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Dixon Hunt

British architect

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1936

Place of Birth: Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

Profession: architect, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

John Dixon Hunt (born 18 January 1936 in Gloucester) is an English landscape historian.
His work particularly focuses on the time between the turn of the seventeenth through the end of the 18th centuries in France and England.
Professor Hunt began his academic career teaching English literature.
He is the author of many articles [not only in landscape journals but also Apollo, Lincoln Center Theater Review, and Comparative Criticism], and chapters on topics including T.
S.
Eliot and modern painting, Utopia in and as garden, and garden as commemoration.
He has written numerous books which include The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination: 1848-1900 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968), his Critical Commentary on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” (Macmillan 1968), studies of Marvell, Ruskin, and William Kent, his classic Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750 (J.
M.
Dent, 1986), Greater Perfections (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), Picturesque Garden in Europe (Thames & Hudson, 2002), and The Afterlife of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2004), A World of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2012) and The Making of Place: Modern and Contemporary Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2015).