
Selected Writings
John Ruskin(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published in May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
362 pages
978-0-19-280262-0 (ISBN)
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'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.' Ruskin was the most powerful and influential critic of the nineteenth century. He wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth, and much besides; all his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and intense now as it was for his first readers. This new selection draws on the whole range of his astonishingly varied output, from the passionate celebration of J. M. W. Turner's painting in the first volume of Modern Painters (1843) to Praeterita (1885-9), the elegiac autobiography of his later years. The introduction outlines Ruskin's life and thought, and shows why he remains such a rewarding writer today.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Students and readers of Victorian literature, cultural studies, history of art, general readers and tourists in the Lake District e.g. Brantwood, Ruskin's home, and the Ruskin Museum, Coniston
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
11 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
11 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-280262-0 (9780192802620)
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John Ruskin | Dinah Birch
Selected Writings
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03/2009
Oxford University Press
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DINAH BIRCH, Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool
Content
Modern Painters; The Seven Lamps of Architecture; The Stones of Venice; Unto this Last; Sesame and Lilies; The Queen of the Air; Lectures on Art; Fors Clavigera; The Eagle's Nest; Proserpina; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century; Praeterita