That is a comment on our times, rather than on the value of what he had to say.
Notes
1 John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. III, part IV, ch. 17, 1856; Collected Works (see below), vol. V, p. 381.
2 John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, vol. II, 1853, 'The Nature of the Gothic', as in John Ruskin, Unto This Last, ed. Clive Wilmer, Penguin Books, p. 87, 1985.
3 John Ruskin, Unto This Last, essay 4, 'Ad Valorem', p. 213, 1860.
4 John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. III, part IV, ch. 17; Collected Works (see below), vol. V, pp. 386-7.
5 John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. II, part III, ch. 1; Collected Works (see below), vol. IV, p. 33.
6 John Ruskin, The Eagle's Nest, Lecture 1, Section 18, 1872.
7 John Ruskin, 'The Future of England', 1869, Collected Works (see below), vol. XVIII, pp. 500-3.
8 John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies, 1865; Collected Works (see below), vol. XVIII, p. 61.
9 John Ruskin, 'The Nature of the Gothic', p. 91.
See also
In this book: Nietzsche
Ruskin's major writings
The standard edition of the Collected Works is still the 39-volume edition edited by E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn and published by George Allen in London between 1903 and 1912.
Further reading
a
Anthony, P.D., John Ruskin's Labour: A Study of Ruskin's Social Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
b
Batchelor, John, John Ruskin, No Wealth But Life, London: Chatto and Windus, 2000.
f
Fuller, Peter, Theoria, London: Chatto and Windus, 1988.
h
Hewison, Robert, Ruskin and Oxford, The Art of Education, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hilton, Tim, John Ruskin, The Early Years, Yale University Press, 1985; and John Ruskin, The Later Years, Yale University Press, 2000.
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