Studies in Ruskin: Some Aspects of the Work and Teaching of John Ruskin - Hardcover

Cook, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804615675 ISBN 13: 9780804615679

Publisher: Imprint unknown, 1972

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX II. "the Pleasures Of England:" 1884. The second complete course of Mr. Ruskin's Oxford Lectures which I had the privilege of attending was the one on "The Art of England." Of these I took full notes at the time, for publication in the Pall Mall Gazette; but the lectures had been carefully prepared, and the printed volume hardly differs at all from the spoken lectures. There would, therefore, be no point in republishing my notes. With the lectures entitled "The Pleasures of England," which I similarly reported, the case is different. The course had clearly not been so carefully prepared, nor was the lecturer's line of thought so closely reasoned, as in "The Art of England." My reports took the form, therefore, of "digested plans" (so Mr. Ruskin was kind enough to call them), "summarizing a line of thought not always by me enough expressed, and completing and illustrating it from other parts of my books, often more fully than, against time, I could do myself." Accordingly I reprint these reports here in their original form, in the hope that they may be found by a reader here and there to serve as useful companions to the printed lectures. Lecture I. "bertha To Osburga: The Pleasures Of Learning." (Pall Mall Gazette, October 2oth, 1884.) The course of lectures which Mr. Ruskin proposes to give in Oxford this term, and the first of which was delivered on Saturday, is intended to trace in rough outline the whole history of England as written in her art. The Future of England. Mr. Ruskin's history, it need hardly be said, has a purpose and a moral; and the object of his survey of English art is, he stated at the outset on Saturday, to show what those of us who have faculty should do, and those of us who have sensibility should admire. "Such action and s...

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"My desire has been to discuss not how, but what, Ruskin has written. ... His writings open a vista into a great forest, but there has been some danger of not seeing the forest for the trees."

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804615675
• ISBN 13: 9780804615679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334