By John Ruskin, Edward Tyas Cook (editor), Alexander Wedderburn (editor)
The effect of John Ruskin (1819-1900), either on his personal time and on creative and social advancements within the 20th century, can't be over-stated. He replaced Victorian perceptions of artwork, and was once the most effect at the back of 'Gothic revival' structure. As a social critic, he argued for the advance of the of the terrible, and opposed to the expanding mechanisation of labor in factories, which he believed was once boring and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library version of his works, released among 1903 and 1912, are themselves a extraordinary success, during which his books and essays - just about all hugely illustrated - are given a biographical and significant context in prolonged introductory essays and within the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and memories either through and approximately Ruskin. This twenty-fifth quantity includes Ruskin's writings on birds (Love's Meinie) and flora (Proserpina).
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The Oxford lectures excited much interest, and occasionally some little indignation. In the first lecture (§ 29), Ruskin delivered himself of an amusing skit on Darwinism—then, it must be remembered, a new theory, not perhaps too well understood. Certainly Darwin himself would have been surprised to hear himself credited with such a theory as Ruskin, in his fun, propounded. " 3 But the lecturer in part meant his skit to be taken very seriously, and in the succeeding lecture he returned to the subject—in graver tones, and with an apology for his previous raillery (§ 58).
His was "popular science," and science for artists; a science primarily of aspects, not the science of essences and origins. "3 His 1 2 "Mr. Ruskin's Titles/' by Mrs. E. T. Cook, in Good Words, July 1893. See Murray's New English Dictionary, whence I collect these instances. See also Foi's Clavigera, Letter 28, § 14. 3 Preface to Aratra Pentelici, Vol. XX. p. 197. xxx INTRODUCTION ambition was to formulate simple grammars of ornithology, botany, and mineralogy, which should familiarise young students " quickly and easily with the general aspectsM1 of natural objects, and at the same time connect the study with art and literature.
RUSKIN. " Mind, this order for Rousseau is quite serious. " 3 1 "Recollections of Ruskin at Oxford, by 'Peter,'" in St. George, vol. vi. p. 112. See "The Story of the Second Royal Mendicant," ch. iii. in Lane's Arabian Nights (vol. i. p. 157). 3 Reprinted from pp. 39-41 of Stray Letters from Professor Ruskin to a London Bibliopole, privately printed 1892. Ellis, it is there stated, was unable to obtain any copies of Rousseau's book. , 78. " DEAR MR. DEAN,—I ought before to have written you an official letter, but cannot, yet—my thoughts on the matter being more than I can gather into any formal compass—only at least you ought to know the fact, that I can't be Professor any more.