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

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Introduction Classical Authors Aesychlus Aristotle Homer the "ethical conception of the Homeric poems" doesn't succumb to Pathetic Fallacy interprets Homer's mythological figures Plato Sophocles Vergil Medieval and Renaissance Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer's noble temple of Mars Dante Alighieri ideal creative artist Dante's description of the satanic Influences Ruskin's ideas of allegory Dante and Ruskin's political economics William Shakespeare 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 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 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” 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)

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 Ruskin's youthful enthusiasm for Shelley Alfred Tennyson William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Ruskin's ideas of imagination Finley on Wordsworth and Ruskin major early influence affirmations of Wordsworthian joy The Prelude and Præterita Ruskin, Wilde, Satire, and the Birth of Aestheticism Twentieth Century Walter Benjamin Annie Dillard Susanne Langer 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 31 December 2010