cover image The Poetics of Gardens

The Poetics of Gardens

Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, William Jr. Turnbull. MIT Press (MA), $38 (257pp) ISBN 978-0-262-63153-2

With erudition and uncommon imagination, the authors consider the social and aesthetic history of gardens, deftly compressing encyclopedic findings in urbane prose. Illustrations. (Sept.)