Footnote 2, 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.
indicates a link to material not in the original print version. [GPL]. Elizabeth Helsinger, Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), 140. Arrestingly, Helsinger adds Dante to the list of traveler's guides to Italy. For Ruskin's readings of Byron and Rogers, see, for example, Richard L. Stein, The Ritual of Interpretation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), 72; and Clegg, 32-37. For Ruskin's relationship to the Gothic Revival and his debts to Rio, Lord Lindsay, and other writers, see Francis G. Townsend, Ruskin and the Landscape Feeling (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1951), and John Rosenberg, The Darkening Glass (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 47-55.
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