The complete online text of Selections From the Works of John Ruskin by John Ruskin.

The English critic and social theorist John Ruskin (1819-1900) more than any other man shaped the esthetic values and tastes of Victorian England. His writings combine enormous sensitivity and human compassion with a burning zeal for moral value. John Ru...

John Ruskin was the most influential art critic to write in England between the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 and the publications of Clive Bell and others around 1914. It is not, in fact, too much to say that his is the most important body of art...

John Ruskin was the most influential art critic to write in England between the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 and the publications of Clive Bell and others around 1914. It is not, in fact, too much to say that his is the most important body of art...

John Ruskin: Selected Writings. Ed. by DINAH BIRCH Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xxxviii+324 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-280262-3. The last twenty years have been kind to John Ruskin. Revisionist approaches to Victorian art, the rise of a new environmentalism, and...

Lancaster University plans to display the Ruskin collection, which will include books, diaries, drawings, and manuscripts. Other works by Ruskin will continue to be displayed at Brantwood, the house where Ruskin lived from 1872 to 1900. * John Ruskin (1819-1900), Victorian critic, artist,...