Footnote 3, Chapter 11, of the author's Ruskin's Poetic Argument: The Design of the Major Works, which Cornell University Press published in 1985. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Coleridge, Complete Works, ed. W. C. T. Shedd (New York: Harper, 1884), I, 376. For Coleridge and Linnaeus, I am indebted to James Paradis, "Darwin and Landscape," in Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Library Perspectives, ed. James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 80 [1981]), 85-110.
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