The Garden and the Frontier

Garden and frontier have ancient traditions, although that of the garden reaches back to hession and virgil. The garden was prefigured as an american pastoral image in shakespeare's tempest,. It found its early expression, albeit an ambiguous one, in beverly's history and present state of virginia. Soon after the opening of the eighteenth century, the image of a landscape of reconciliation, a mild agricultural, semi primitive terrain, became a commonplace in descriptive writing about America.