1. Feudalism and Beyond: the Anxiety of Change
Of Rent Raisers / Robert Crowley
Lantern for Landlords / Anon
New Way to Pay Old Debts / Philip Massinger
History of Myddle / Richard Gough
Deserted Village / Oliver Goldsmith
Village, Book I / George Crabbe
2. Discovery of Landscape
'April' eclogue, The Shepheardes Calender / Edmund Spenser
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia) / Philip Sidney
Survey of Cornwall / Richard Carew
'A Description of Romney Marsh' / Michael Drayton
On Westwell Downs / William Strode
Contemplation on Basset's Down Hill / Anne Kemp
Cooper's Hill / John Denham
Great Journey / Celia Fiennes
Letter to William Shenstone / Miss J.-M.-
Observations on the River Wye ... relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty / William Gilpin
Description of Cookham / Aemilia Lanyer
To Penshurst / Ben Jonson
Of a Country House / Timothy Nourse
To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, Of the Uses of Riches / Alexander Pope
Crumble-Hall / Mary Leapor
Description of Millenium Hall / Sarah Scott
4. Merry England: Property, Pastoral and Rural Pleasures
Anatomie of Abuses / Philip Stubbes
Pastorals / Michael Drayton
Kings Majesties Declaration to his Subjects, Concerning lawful Sports to be used / King James VI and King James I.
Corinna's going a Maying / Robert Herrick
Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home. To the Right Honourable, Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland / Robert Herrick
Rural Recreations: or, The Young Men and Maids' Merriment at their Dancing round a Country Maypole / Anon
Shepherd's Week / John Gay
5. Georgic Imperative: Labour, Thrift, Improvement
Love God with all thy Heart / Thomas Palmer
September's Husbandry / Thomas Tusser
Brief Note or Account of Mine Own Estate 1591 / John Kay of Woodsome
Taylor on Thame-Isis / John Taylor
husbandman doth sow the seeds / And, then, on hope, til harvest feeds / George Wither
Essay on Virgil's Georgics / Joseph Addison
Agriculture / Robert Dodsley
Fleece, Book 2 / John Dyer
Six Months Tour through the North of England / Arthur Young
6. Property and Oppression: Voices from the Margins
Diggers of Warwickshire to all other Diggers
Andrew Abington's Commandments
True Levellers Standard Advanced / Gerrard Winstanley
Thresher's Labour / Stephen Duck
Woman's Labour / Mary Collier
Clifton Hill / Ann Yearsley
Letter from the Combined of Cheshunt to Oliver Cromwell Esq., of Cheshunt Park
7. Gardens: Public and Private Pleasures
Essay on Modern Gardening / Walpole
To the Memory of a Lady lately deceased: a monody / George Lyttelton
William Shenstone's correspondence
Plan and description of the estate of William Shenstone, called the Leasowes near Halesowen, Worcestershire / Joseph Spence and Robert Dodsley
Elegy to William Shenstone, Esq; Of the Lessowes / James Woodhouse
Spiritual Quixote; or, The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A Comic Romance / Richard Graves.
