Note 27 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.
J. R. Watson, Picturesque Landscape and English Romantic Poetry (London: Hutchinson, 1970), p. 22. On Wordsworth and the picturesque, see also Salvesen, The Landscape of Memory; Patricia M. Ball, The Science of Aspects (London: The Athlone Press, 1971), pp. 5-47; Russell Noyes, Wordsworth and the Art of Landscape (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968); John R. Nabholtz, "Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes and the Picturesque Tradition," Modern Philology, 61 (1964), 288-97; and W. P. Ker, On Modern Literature. Lectures and Addresses (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), pp. 102-03.
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