RUSKIN AND TURNER’S POETRY OR A RUSKINIAN VIEW OF TURNER’S POETRY APPENDED ? TO SOME OF HIS PAINTINGS Turner's poetry and other texts, including the complete titles he gives to his paintings, are often important for understanding fully the meanings of the latter. Yet they are omitted from many of the display captions to his paintings at the Tate Gallery and on the Tate website, or they are incomplete, as in the case of the National Gallery Let us begin with two major pictures concerning Carthage, of 1815 and 1817. Dido building Carthage, exh. 1815, BJ 131, National Gallery, London. This is the title to be found on the National gallery website We will restore Turner's full title : Dido building Carthage, or the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire, as to found in the RA catalogue of 1815 This shows we are in the domain on Empire building, not simply city building We will return