List of illustrations; Part I. Representational Spaces: Introduction: expansion and contraction; 1. Codifying containment: the parliamentary enclosures; 2. Altering the prospects: Switzer, Whately, and Repton; Part II. The Poetry of Earth: 3. English Georgic and British nationhood; 4. Philips's Cyder: Englishing the apple; 5. Jago's Edge-Hill: simulation and representation; Part III. Infinitude Confined: 6. Lyric art; 7. The kitchen garden manual; 8. The poetics of the bower: Keats, Coleridge, and Hemans; Conclusion; Bibliography.