SUBJECT FOR TASTE, A - CULTURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

In the eighteenth century England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. This is a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. Not only a matter of leading writers, from Swift and Pope to Dr Johnson and Sheridan, and of artists from Hogarth to Reynolds, there was also room for popular ballads, political doggerel, pornographic verse and vigorous satirical cartoons.Taste in architecture ranged from great houses with gardens landscaped by Capability Brown to the changed use of domestic space in towns.