"On each pleasant footstep stay" A Walk about "Appleton House".

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax," by Andrew Marvell. It discusses the poem as a meditation and compares the depiction of Appleton House to aspects of the real building's architecture, including its use of square and circular shapes. The author traces Marvell's steps through the house, analyzing the content of the poem's stanzas. Topics addressed include nunneries in 17th-century England, the Appleton garden, and the estate's landscape.