Richard Graves
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Richard Graves was an English cleric, poet, and novelist. He is remembered especially for his picaresque novel The Spiritual Quixote.
Richard Graves by James Northcote, 1799.
The Spiritual Quixote, vol.1, 1774
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
Richard Graves
…1 December. A mural tablet was placed there to his memory. Among Graves's college friends were William Blackstone, Richard Jago, William Hawkins: and William Shenstone, who became a close friend. Graves later wrote Recollections of Shenstone. The fourth elegy by Shenstone is Ophelia's Urn. To Mr. G—— (i.e. Graves…
Portrait by Edward Alcock, 1760
The view from the ruined Halesowen Priory towards The Leasowes (on the crest of the hill on the right).