Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)

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Biographical Materials

• Biography

Works

• Italy (1828)
• The Pleasures of Memory (1792)
• Page from "Julia and Florio"
• Page from "Ode to Superstiton"
• Extext at Project Gutenberg: Poems

Literary Relations

• Ruskin's father purchases copy of Italy in 1833
• Italy convinces Ruskin that landscape art is part of travel writing
• Turner's vignettes for Italy a revelation of the power of landscape art

The illustrators of Italy

• Samuel Prout (2 engravings)
• Thomas Stothard (6 engravings)
• J.M.W. Turner (22 engravings)

References

Rogers, Samuel. The Pleasures of Memory. 5th ed. London: T. Caddell, 1793.

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