Note 1 to Chapter 4 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
On the theory of ut pictura poesis before the nineteenth century, see William Guild Howard, "Ut Pictura Poesis," Publications of the Modern Language Association, 17 (1909), 40-123; Cicely Davies, "Ut Pictura Poesis," Modern Language Review, 30 (1935), 159-69; Rensselaer W. Lee, "Ut Pictura Poesis: The Humanistic Theory of Painting," Art Bulletin, 22 (1940), 197-269 (rpt. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1967); Jean Hagstrum, The Sister Arts; Ralph Cohen, The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's The Seasons and the Language of Criticism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), pp. 188-247; Dean ToDe Mace, "Ut pictura poesis: Dryden, Poussin and the Parallel of Poetry and Painting in the Seventeenth Century," in Hunt, ed., Encounters, pp. 58-81; and James S. Malek, The Arts Compared: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974).
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