Matthew Arnold

• Contrasted to Arnold's dislike of allegory

Anna Barbauld

• “No man could owe more” — John Ruskin’s debt to Anna Barbauld’s books for children

John Bunyan

• Ruskin's critique of Grace Abounding

Lord Byron

• Importance to Ruskin's narrative stance in Praeterita
• Byron, guidebooks, and Ruskin's approach to history and historigraphy
• Byron's influence led him into hermeneutic ambivalence in Praeterita

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”
• Past and Present, travel writing, and Ruskin
• Carlyle, Ruskin, and persuasive description: voices versus eye

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

George Eliot

• Ruskin's major influence upon George Eliot
• Modern Painters III's influence upon Adam Bede (ch 17)

William Hazlitt

• Hazlitt's and Ruskin's art criticism compared
• Influenced Ruskin's views of Scott

Richard Payne Knight

• Ruskin rejects Knight's Symbolical Language of Ancient Art

Karl Marx

• From Labor to Value: Marx, Ruskin, and the Critique of Capitalism

William Morris

• William Morris

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

Marcel Proust

• Ruskin, a Catalyst for Proust
• [Notice of] Cynthia Gamble's Voix entrelacées de Proust et de Ruskin

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
• Scott as representative poet
• Fors Clavigera and Sir Walter Scott

P. B. Shelley

• Ruskin's youthful enthusiasm for his poetry
• Ruskin's “Mont Blanc Revisited”

Alfred Tennyson

Oscar Wilde

• Ruskin, Wilde, Satire, and the Birth of Aestheticism

William Wordsworth

• Wordsworth and Ruskin's ideas of imagination
• Wordsworth the co-hero of Modern Painters I
• Finley on Wordsworth and Ruskin
• major early influence
• affirmations of Wordsworthian joy
• The Prelude and Præterita
• Wordsworth the co-hero of Modern Painters I

Miscellaneous

• Charles Baudelaire
• William Blake
• Ruskin's praise of George Herbert
• Trench, Müller, and Ruskin's views of the history of language
• Ruskin’s Shakespeare

What Contemporaries Thought

• Margaret Oliphant on Unto This Last
• Margaret Oliphant on Ruskin (2)
• Celebrity, the Victorian Audience, Dickens, and Ruskin
• A Nineteenth-Century American Tribute: J. Marshall Mather

Twentieth Century

• Cambridge History of English Literature
• Walter Benjamin
• Annie Dillard
• Susanne Langer
• Lawrence and Ruskin: The Sage as Word-Painter
• Tom Wolfe

Victorian and Recent Scholarship and Criticism

• Some Ruskinians