“ He embarked on elaborate schemes of landscape gardening which gave the Leasowes a wide celebrity, but sadly impoverished the owner. Shenstone was not a contented recluse. He desired constant admiration of his gardens, and he never ceased to lament his lack of fame as a poet. ”

“ See also Richard Graves, Recollections of some particulars in the Life of the Late William Shenstone (1788) ; H. Sydney Grazebrook, The Family of Shenstone the Poet (1890) ; Lennox Morison, “Shenstone,” in the Gentleman's Magazine (vol. 289, 1900, pp. 196-205) : A. Chalmers, English Poets (1810, vol. xiii.) , with “Life” by Samuel Johnson; his Poetical Works (Edinburgh, 1854) , with “Life” by G. Gilfillan; T. D’Israeli, “The Domestic Life of a Poet—Shenstone vindicated,” in Curiosities of Literature; and “Burns and Shenstone,” in Furth in Field (1894) , by “Hugh Haliburton” (J. L. Robertson) . ”