The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Life of John Ruskin, by W. G. Collingwood

Title: The Life of John Ruskin

Author: W. G. Collingwood

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THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN

by W.G. COLLINGWOOD

M.A., F.S.A., LATE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART,

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, READING.

1911

PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION

This book in its first form was written nearly twenty years ago with the intention of contributing a volume to a series of University Extension Manuals. For that purpose it included a sketch of Ruskin's "Work," with some attempt to describe the continuous development of his thought. It had the advantage—and the disadvantage—of being written under his eye; that is to say, he saw as much of it as his health allowed; and it received his general approval.

To explain my venturing upon the subject at all, I may perhaps be allowed to state that I became his pupil in 1872 (having seen him earlier), and continued to be in some relation to him—as visitor, resident assistant, or near neighbour—until his death.

After his death the biographical part of my book was enlarged at the expense of the description of his writings; and in revising once more I have thrown out much relating to his works, chiefly because they are now accessible as they were not formerly.

W.G.C.

CONISTON, May 1911

CONTENTS

BOOK I

THE BOY POET (1819-1842)

1. HIS ANCESTORS
   
2. THE FATHER OF THE MAN (1819-1825)
3. PERFERVIDUM INGENIUM (1826-1830)
4. MOUNTAIN-WORSHIP (1830-1835)
5. THE GERM OF "MODERN PAINTERS" (1836)
6. A LOVE-STORY (1836-1839)
7. "KATA PHUSIN" (1837-1838)
8. SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE (1837-1839)
   
9. "THE BROKEN CHAIN" (1840-1841)
10. THE GRADUATE OF OXFORD (1841-1842)

BOOK II

THE ART CRITIC (1842-1860)

1. "TURNER AND THE ANCIENTS" (1842-1844)
2. CHRISTIAN ART (1845-1847)
3. "THE SEVEN LAMPS" (1847-1849)
4. "STONES OF VENICE" (1849-1851)
5. PRE-RAPHAELITISM (1851-1853)
6. THE EDINBURGH LECTURES (1853-1854)
7. THE WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE (1854-1855)
8. "MODERN PAINTERS" CONTINUED (1855-1856)
9. "THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART" (1857-1858)
10. "MODERN PAINTERS" CONCLUDED (1858-1860)

BOOK III

HERMIT AND HERETIC (1860-1870)

1. "UNTO THIS LAST" (1860-1861)
2. "MUNERA PULVERIS" (1862)
3. THE LIMESTONE ALPS (1863)
4. "SESAME AND LILIES" (1864)
5. "ETHICS OF THE DUST" (1865)
6. "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE" (1865-1866)
7. "TIME AND TIDE" (1867)