The Author's Acknowledgement of Jeanne Clegg's Inspiration to His Work

Paul L. Sawyer, Professor of English, Cornell University

Footnote 1, Chapter 5, 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.

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Jeanne Clegg, Ruskin and Venice (London: Junction Books, 1981), 82-83. My account of the Ruskins' first winter in Venice is indebted to Clegg's excellent book, which discusses all eleven of Ruskin's visits and their impact on his thought and feelings.

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