Eighteenth-century Distrust of Ut Pictura Poesis -- a Bibliography

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 5 to Chapter 8 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 eighteenth-century backgrounds of this distrust, see Cohen, The Art of Discrimination, pp. 135-42; and Ronald Paulson, Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975), pp. 48-49. On Mill and landscape painting, see Anna J. Mill, "John Stuart Mill and the Picturesque," Victorian Studies, 14 (1970), 151-63.

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