Значение слова SHENSTONE в Литературной энциклопедии

WILLIAM (1714-1763).-Poet, _s._ of Thomas S., owner of a small estate at Hales Owen, Shropshire. At this place, called the Leasowes, the poet was _b._ In 1732 he went to Oxf. On his father's death he retired to the Leasowes where he passed his time, and ran through his means in transforming it into a marvel of landscape gardening, visited by strangers from all parts of the kingdom. The works of S. consist of poems and prose essays. Of the former two, _The Schoolmistress_, a humorous imitation of Spenser, with many quaint and tender touches, and the _Pastoral Ballad_ in four parts, perhaps the best of its kind in the language, survive. The essays also display good sense and a pointed and graceful style. The last years of S. were clouded by financial embarrassments and perhaps also by disappointed affections. After his death his works, were _coll._ and _pub._ by Dodsley.