Footnote 2, Chapter 12, 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.
See for example, Jay Fellows, The Failing Distance: The Autobiographical Impulse in John Ruskin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 99-111; John D. Rosenberg, "Ruskin's Benediction: A Reading of Fors Clavigera," New Approaches to Ruskin, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981); and Guy Davenport, "The House that Ruskin Built," in his The Geography of the Imagination (San Francisco North Point Press, 1981), which also draws the parallel betweenFors Clavigera and Pound's Cantos that I discuss below. Some of what follows draws upon my earlier essay, "Ruskin and St. George: The Dragon-Killing Myth in Fors Clavigera," Victorian Studies 23 (1979), 5-28.
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