JOHN RUSKIN: SELECTED WRITINGS (OXFORD WORLDS 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 selection draws on the whole range of his astonishingly varied output, from the passionate celebration of Turner's painting in the first volume of Modern Painters (1843) to Praeterita (1885-9), the elegiac autobiography of his later years.