John Ruskin — Literary Relations: Sources, Influences, Confluences, Criticisms

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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries John Bunyan Edmund Burke imitates Burke's rhetorical strategies Discusses Burke's On the Sublime Denies sublime is separate from beauty Burkean notions of architecture William Hazlitt Influenced Ruskin's views of Scott Richard Payne Knight Ruskin rejects Knight's Symbolical Language of Ancient Art Alexander Pope "Essay on Criticism" Childhood influence of reading Pope's Homer Jonathan Swift

Romantics and Victorians Matthew Arnold Contrasted to Arnold's dislike of allegory William Blake Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Charles Baudelaire Lord Byron Byron, guidebooks, and Ruskin's approach to history and historigraphy Thomas Carlyle Influence on Ruskin Unacknowledged guiding spirit of Modern Painters III share idea(l) of work Sartor Resartus on symbolism Influenced by Carlyle's idea of myth in Heroes and Hero-Worship Carlylean conception of the artist-seer Ruskin, “the young lieutenant of Carlyle in his war on Utilitarian Radicalism” Past and Present, travel writing, and Ruskin Carlyle, Ruskin, and persuasive description: voices versus eye Samuel Taylor Coleridge “one of the noblest poems for its imagery and its music” criticized Close reading of C's “Ode to France” Charles Dickens Paul Sawyer on Dickens and Ruskin Pip Learns to Reject the Goddess of Getting On J. D. Harding [artist and art theorist] A. E. Housman goes to an 1877 Lecture by Ruskin William Morris Patmore's Poetic Vision: Patmore, Ruskin, Carlyle, The Romantics, and The Search for An Ideal Poetry George Eliot Ruskin's major influence upon George Eliot Modern Painters III's influence upon Adam Bede (ch 17)

William Hazlitt Hazlitt's and Ruskin's art criticism compared Walter Pater Pater's Aesthetic Poet: The Appropriation of Rossetti from Ruskin — Introduction Pater's "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" and His Intellectual Relation to Ruskin Coventry Patmore Patmore's Friendship with Ruskin Patmore's Poetic Vision: Patmore, Ruskin, Carlyle, The Romantics, and the Search for an Ideal Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ruskin's Relation to Pater and Rossetti Walter Scott Presiding genius of the Ruskin househould The Monastery his favorite childhood book and R's autiobiographical myth Scott as representative poet Ruskin's youthful enthusiasm for Shelley Alfred Tennyson William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Ruskin's ideas of imagination Wordsworth the co-hero of Modern Painters I Finley on Wordsworth and Ruskin major early influence affirmations of Wordsworthian joy The Prelude and Præterita Wordsworth the co-hero of Modern Painters I Ruskin, Wilde, Satire, and the Birth of Aestheticism Twentieth Century Walter Benjamin Annie Dillard Susanne Langer Lawrence and Ruskin: The Sage as Word-Painter Tom Wolfe What Contemporaries Thought Margaret Oliphant on Unto This Last Margaret Oliphant on Ruskin (2) Celebrity, the Victorian Audience, Dickens, and Ruskin

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Last updated 20 February 2013