Windsor castle . and Cythna\at Bishopsgate he wrote Alastor; but for a romanticpoet to come within a few miles of Windsor, eventhough he was once an Etonian, was a rash if nota sacrilegious act, and it is out of the picture. Forthis country is the creation of the ages of Denhamand Pope and George the Fourth, who probablydid not read Shelley. The plantation of the twomiles of elms in the Long Walk was begun underCharles II in 1680, and these are far more impressivethan the oaks at Swinley, which remind the imagin-ative of Alfred and the Confessor. The straightlines of this Walk and of Queen Ann
Windsor castle . and Cythna\at Bishopsgate he wrote Alastor; but for a romanticpoet to come within a few miles of Windsor, eventhough he was once an Etonian, was a rash if nota sacrilegious act, and it is out of the picture. Forthis country is the creation of the ages of Denhamand Pope and George the Fourth, who probablydid not read Shelley. The plantation of the twomiles of elms in the Long Walk was begun underCharles II in 1680, and these are far more impressivethan the oaks at Swinley, which remind the imagin-ative of Alfred and the Confessor. The straightlines of this Walk and of Queen Annes ride dominatethe Park. At Cranbourne the significant fact is notthat William the Conquerors Oak is in the WhiteDeer Enclosure, but that the racehorse Eclipsewas born here in 1764. The Bray Wood oak treesthat sprouted in the Middle Ages were suddenlymodernized by being named after Queen Anne andQueen Charlotte. When Hazlitt went to see the pictures at Windsor,he said: Popes lines on Windsor Forest suggest ? I. HI/)<U ct O Qz Q < 2iLU O w I iW*J===*~Mf
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