The desire of my eyes: The life and work of John Ruskin

摘要: Though he often wrote in matchless prose, Ruskin's thought developed slowly and sometimes repetitively. His ideas, if we come to them unprepared, can seem obscure, confused, difficult grasp. Wolfgang Kemp's biography - the first properly conceptual of its subject at last makes sense what Ruskin was saying. With perception lucidity, largely by allowing speak for himself, Kemp demonstrates how whole life founded on his early visits Continent with parents, theories nature which worked out there. From these derived beliefs about art beauty, from turn ideas craftsmanship, philosophy work social order. It this won him affection thousands working men women though proclaimed himself a high Tory furnished Britain's socialists their spiritual armour. is simply one contradicitons frenzied man overlaid. shows all things were part whole, book passions nature, ultimately living rightly emerge fresh overwhelming.