Praeterita
By: John Ruskin ; edited with an introduction and notes by Francis O'Gorman
Contributors: O'Gorman, Francis
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780192802415
Subjects: Critics; Biography; English Authors
Description: "John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose in the language. Ruskin's incomplete autobiography was written between periods of serious mental illness at the end of his career, and is an eloquent analysis of the guiding powers of his life, both public and private. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's intense childhood, his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, and, most of all, his journeys across France, the Alps, and northern Italy. Attentive to the human or divine meaning of everything around him, Praeterita is an astonishing account of revelation"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A chronology of John Ruskin; title: Praeterita; title: Volume I - Volume II; title: Volume III; title: Appendix: omitted portion of "L'esterelle"; title: Explanatory notes; title: Glossary of persons mentioned.