Ruskin's Influence on the Pre-Raphaelites

Paul L. Sawyer, Professor of English, Cornell University

Footnote 3, Chapter 4, 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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George P. Landow, Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980), 122-123. [See also not in print version Landow's book on Hunt and Pre-Raphaelite symbolism.] For Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites see also Herbert Sussman, Fact into Figure (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1979); for his defense of Fra Angelico and his subsequent rejection of Angelico's "purism," see Richard Dellamora, "The Revival of 'Christian' Art: Ruskin's Appreciation of Fra Angelico 1845-1860," University of Toronto Quarterly 13 (1974), 143-150.

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