John Ruskin and Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Authors— Literary Relations: Sources, Influences, Confluences, Criticisms

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These categories represent both a promise of some of the materials that will be linked to this crossroads document as time permits and an invitation to add your own materials as well.

Aristotle

• Ruskin's Aristotelan vitalism (Sawyer)
• Naming and ordering of chapters in Modern Painters comes from Aristotle

Homer

• the "ethical conception of the Homeric poems"
• doesn't succumb to Pathetic Fallacy
• interprets Homer's mythological figures

Plato

• Unto This Last and Plato's Republic

St. Augustine

• Parallels with the Confessions

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

Quarles and other Renaissance emblem writers

Parallels with the Confessions

William Shakespeare

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