"Walpole's achievement has to be saluted all the more when it is
realized that single-handedly he determined (or distorted) the
writing of landscape architecture history to this day' John Dixon
Hunt in Greater Perfection: the practice of garden theory" By a
mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever
written on English garden history. For two centuries it mapped the
whole landscape of the subject. However, the author was partial in
the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in
modernisation, and the superiority of everything English to almost
everything that had gone before. He had a special dislike of
Baroque gardens, as exemplified by Versailles, which for him
symbolised absolutism, tyranny, and the oppression of nature.
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