Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I UNTO THIS LAST (1860)
- CHAPTER II EXILE (1861–1863)
- CHAPTER III BOULOGNE—LUCERNE—MILAN (1861–1862)
- CHAPTER IV MORNEX—MUNERA PULVERIS (1862–1863)
- CHAPTER V HOME LIFE AT DENMARK HILL (1864–1866)
- CHAPTER VI SESAME AND LILIES—THE GROWN OF WILD OLIVE—THE ETHICS OF THE DUST (1865, 1866)
- CHAPTER VII TIME AND TIDE (1866, 1867)
- CHAPTER VIII RUSKIN's POLITICAL ECONOMY
- CHAPTER IX ABBEVILLE AND VERONA (1868, 1869)
- CHAPTER X OXFORD PROFESSOR (1870–1878)
- CHAPTER XI FIRST OXFORD LECTURES (1870, 1871)
- CHAPTER XII A DARK YEAE (1871)
- CHAPTER XIII BOTTICELLI (1872, 1873)
- CHAPTER XIV WITH ST. FRANCIS AT ASSISI (1874)
- CHAPTER XV THE END OF A ROMANCE (1875)
- CHAPTER XVI HOME LIFE AT BRANTWOOD (1872–1876)
- CHAPTER XVII VENICE REVISITED (1876–1877)
- CHAPTER XVIII FORS CLAVIGERA (1871–1878)
- CHAPTER XIX THE ST. GEORGE'S GUILD
- CHAPTER XX THE RUSKIN MUSEUM
- CHAPTER XXI SCHOOLS OF ST. GEORGE
- CHAPTER XXII ARROWS OF THE CHACE
- CHAPTER XXIII “THE DREAM” (1877–1878)
- CHAPTER XXIV STUDIES OF FLOWERS AND ROCKS (1878)
- CHAPTER XXV RETURN TO WORK (1878–1880)
- CHAPTER XXVI THE BIBLE OF AMIENS. FURTHER ILLNESSES (1880–1882)
- CHAPTER XXVII SECOND PROFESSORSHIP AT OXFORD (1882–1885)
- CHAPTER XXVIII PRÆTERITA (1885–1889)
- CHAPTER XXIX OLD AGE AND LAST WORKS (1886–1889)
- CHAPTER XXX CLOSING YEARS (1889–1900)
- CHAPTER XXXI CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER XXXII INFLUENCE
- INDEX
CHAPTER XVIII - FORS CLAVIGERA (1871–1878)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I UNTO THIS LAST (1860)
- CHAPTER II EXILE (1861–1863)
- CHAPTER III BOULOGNE—LUCERNE—MILAN (1861–1862)
- CHAPTER IV MORNEX—MUNERA PULVERIS (1862–1863)
- CHAPTER V HOME LIFE AT DENMARK HILL (1864–1866)
- CHAPTER VI SESAME AND LILIES—THE GROWN OF WILD OLIVE—THE ETHICS OF THE DUST (1865, 1866)
- CHAPTER VII TIME AND TIDE (1866, 1867)
- CHAPTER VIII RUSKIN's POLITICAL ECONOMY
- CHAPTER IX ABBEVILLE AND VERONA (1868, 1869)
- CHAPTER X OXFORD PROFESSOR (1870–1878)
- CHAPTER XI FIRST OXFORD LECTURES (1870, 1871)
- CHAPTER XII A DARK YEAE (1871)
- CHAPTER XIII BOTTICELLI (1872, 1873)
- CHAPTER XIV WITH ST. FRANCIS AT ASSISI (1874)
- CHAPTER XV THE END OF A ROMANCE (1875)
- CHAPTER XVI HOME LIFE AT BRANTWOOD (1872–1876)
- CHAPTER XVII VENICE REVISITED (1876–1877)
- CHAPTER XVIII FORS CLAVIGERA (1871–1878)
- CHAPTER XIX THE ST. GEORGE'S GUILD
- CHAPTER XX THE RUSKIN MUSEUM
- CHAPTER XXI SCHOOLS OF ST. GEORGE
- CHAPTER XXII ARROWS OF THE CHACE
- CHAPTER XXIII “THE DREAM” (1877–1878)
- CHAPTER XXIV STUDIES OF FLOWERS AND ROCKS (1878)
- CHAPTER XXV RETURN TO WORK (1878–1880)
- CHAPTER XXVI THE BIBLE OF AMIENS. FURTHER ILLNESSES (1880–1882)
- CHAPTER XXVII SECOND PROFESSORSHIP AT OXFORD (1882–1885)
- CHAPTER XXVIII PRÆTERITA (1885–1889)
- CHAPTER XXIX OLD AGE AND LAST WORKS (1886–1889)
- CHAPTER XXX CLOSING YEARS (1889–1900)
- CHAPTER XXXI CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER XXXII INFLUENCE
- INDEX
Summary
“ Do you read Ruskin's Fors Clavigera, which he cheerily tells me gets itself reprinted in America? If you don't,do, I advise you. Also hisMunera Pulveris, Oxtord-Lectures on Art, and whatever else he is now writing,—if you can manage to get them (which is difficult here, owing to the ways he has towards the bibliopolic world!). There is nothing going on among us as notable to me as those fierce lightning-bolts Ruskin is copiously and desperately pouring into the black world of Anarchy all around him. No other man in England that I meet has in him the divine rage against iniquity, falsity, and baseness that Ruskin has, and that every man ought to have.”
—Carlyle (Letter to Emerson, April 2, 1872).Ruskin returned to England from Venice in June 1877. Eight months later he was prostrated by the first of recurring attacks of brain-fever. The literary and artistic work detailed in previous chapters were connected in one way or another with his Professorship of Art at Oxford. The work to which we have now to turn was undertaken in his selfappointed role as Prophet—as one charged to warn his generation of its sins, to show to it, if it might be, the way of its salvation. Unpractical as he is commonly called, and as in the vulgar sense he certainly was, Ruskin was strongly possessed by the instinct and passion for practice.
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- The Life of John Ruskin , pp. 312 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1911