Wordsworth reciprocated Ruskin 's admiration; with Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, he was deeply impressed by the first volume of Modern Painters:
I remember well the pleasure and admiring approval with which he greeted the first publication of Mr. Ruskin ( Batho, The Later Wordsworth, p. 38, p. 49)
But the opinion was later slightly amended: 'Ruskin he thought a brilliant writer, but there was too much praise of Turner in his book, to the disparagement of others; he had hardly a word for any one else' (Knight, Life of Wordsworth, ii, p. 334 (see Batho, p. 49n.). VIII. 18, 1849, quoted in Peacock, The Critical Opinions of William Wordsworth, p. 335).
Receiving the second volume of Modern Painters as a gift from Ruskin, Wordsworth praised him for having 'given abundant proof how closely he has observed and how deeply he has reflected (see Hill, The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Later Years, 1840-1853, pp. 780-1).