Selected Writings
Oxford University Press - Classics
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
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 Turners painting in the first volume of Modern Painters 1843 to Praeterita 1885 9 the elegiac autobiography of his later years The introduction outlines Ruskins life and thought and shows why he remains such a rewarding writer today
