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John Ruskin (1819–1900)

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John Ruskin

Works

• Poems (1835-1846)
• The Poetry of Architecture (1837-1838)
• The King of the Golden River, or The Black Brothers (1841)
• The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849, Index)
• Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
• The Stones of Venice (1851-1853)
• Architecture and Painting (1854)
• 'Construction of Sheepfolds
• Harbours of England
• Sesame and Lilies (1864-1865)
• The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858–1859
• Unto This Last (1860)
• A Joy For Ever, and its price on the market, or The Political Economy of Art (1857 / 1880)
• Modern Painters [1] (1843-1860)
• Munera Pulveris: Essays on Political Economy (1862-1863 / 1872) ((transcription project), 1894)
• Cestus of Aglaia (1864)
• The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Chrystallisation (1866)
• The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War (1866)
• Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work (1868)
• The Flamboyant Architecture of the Somme (1869)
• The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm (1869)
• Verona and its Rivers (1870)
• Val d'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories, given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1872
• Mornings in Florence (1877)
• Pearls for Young Ladies (1878)
• Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (1871-1880)
• Fiction, Fair and Foul (1880)
• The Art of England: Lectures Given at the University of Oxford (1883-1884)
• The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884)
• The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given at the University of Oxford (1884-1885) ((transcription project), 1888)
• The Bible of Amiens (1885)
• Proserpina
  • Proserpina, Volume 2, Studies Of Wayside Flowers (1886)
• Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life (1885-1889)
• Kings' Treasuries and Queens' Gardens
• War, Commerce, and Work
• Letters to a Working Man
• A Wreath of Wild Olives

• Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

Lectures

• Inaugural Lecture
• The Relation of Art to Religion
• The Relation of Art to Morals
• The Relation of Art to Use
• Line
• Light
• Colour

Works about Ruskin

Books

• John Ruskin, economist, by Patrick Geddes, 1884 archive.org
• John Ruskin, social reformer, by John Atkinson Hobson, 1898 archive.org
• John Ruskin, by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell, 1900 archive.org
• John Ruskin, by Frederic Harrison, 1902 archive.org
• Life of John Ruskin, by Ashmore Wingate, 1910 archive.org
• The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. Collingwood, 1911
• The Life of John Ruskin, by Edward Tyas Cook, 1911 archive.org, archive.org
• Ruskin's politics, by Bernard Shaw, 1921 archive.org

Articles

• “Ruskin, John,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Ruskin, John” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• "Ruskin," a chapter in Varied Types by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1905
• "John Ruskin" in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873.
• “Ruskin, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Ruskin, John,” in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.

See also

• Unto This Last — M. K. Gandhi

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.