Explore the life of John Ruskin, a notable social critic in Victorian England, discover the things that inspired him, and analyze his criticisms of art, architecture, and capitalism. Review Ruskin's work, Unto This Last, and examine the influence of Ruskin's work on art and economics. ...
Ruskin has justly said (_Modern Painters_, iii. 293), “was a war with pomp and pretence, and a display of the majesty of simple feelings and humble hearts, together with high reflective truth in his analysis of the courses of politics and ways of men; without these, his love of ...
Today I learned that John Ruskin was really into rocks. TheUniversity of Delaware Libraryexplores theprovenance of a piece of quartzin its collection. Georgia State Universityis seeking proposals fora piece of original artworkto be installed in one of it’s spaces (I love the idea of libraries...
Mr Ruskin quotes the couplet— “Never elated, while one man’s oppressed; Never dejected, whilst another’s blessed,”— as “the most complete, concise, and lofty expression of moral temper existing in English words.” The poem of Pope which shows his best and most striking qualities...
Beautiful shadow of Thetis’s boy, Who sleeps in the meadow whose grass grows o’er Troy. Nor Sternhold nor Hopkins has more ruthlessly outraged our ears than the next two– From the red earth, like Adam, thy likeness I shape, As the Being who made him, whose actions I ape(!) ...