| This thesis explores the architectural implications of the garden estate built at Twickenham, England, by Alexander Pope. The thesis argues that Pope used the design and construction (architecture) of his garden estate to bridge what he might have described as a gap between the imaginary ideas in his mind and the limits of language and to adequately manifest the essence of those ideas in the world of appearances.; Specific works from four primary sources will be examined and analysed in the thesis. Arguably, these works shaped the development of the poetic and philosophical ideas of Alexander Pope, and by extension, the architectural translation of his ideas to the various spaces and structures of his garden estate. The sources include selected works from: Homer, Porphyry's interpretation of Homer's The Cave of the Nymphs, Plato, and Joseph Addison. Addison was, for Pope, a significant mentor and exemplary model of Enlightenment theory. The most common themes that direct both the analysis of these theorists' works and the architectural analysis of Pope's garden estate are the dialogue between the imagination and reason and the subject of nature.; The thesis concludes that Alexander Pope's translation of his poetic ideas into visual and spatial experience served to close the gap between fiction and reality, and was the essential foundation enabling Pope to define the nature and character of a culture of his own making. |
