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Selected Writings

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Description for Selected Writings Paperback. Editor(s): Birch, Dinah. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 256.
'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.' 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199539246
SKU
V9780199539246
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About John Ruskin
Dinah Birch has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited George Eliot's Middlemarch for OWC. Her books on Ruskin include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), a selection from Ruskin's Fors Clavigera (2000), and edited collections of essays: Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern (1999), and Ruskin and Gender (2002) co-edited with Francis O'Gorman.

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