ABSTRACT
For earlier comments by Ruskin (1819–1900) see Nos. 27, 88, 93, and, for more of his numerous discussions of Dickens, consult the Index to the Works, ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 vols., 1902–12. Ruskin particularly admired his descriptive powers, and often specially commended the storm in Copperfield: ‘there is nothing in sea-description, detailed,’ to compare with it (Frondes Agrestes, §31, 1875, Works, iii, 570n; and cf. (a) below).
