Sesame and Lilies - Couverture rigide

Ruskin, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0460002198 ISBN 13 : 9780460002196

Editeur : Dutton Books, 1953

Synopsis

Book by Ruskin John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The text of Sesame and Lilies here presented is that of the Brantwood edition the recognized American edition. I have included Buskin sown preface to the edition of 1882 as undoubtedly helpful in understanding the man and his book. The notes are fuller than could be wished. In the case of the Biblical allusions for example, I should have preferred to leave the identification to the student as part of the intense reading that Buskin eloquently urges. But I have quailed before the cry of insufficient time which comes from high-school teachers of English everywhere. Only a few parallel passages are adduced from Buskin sother works. His message was, as I have tried to point out, so single, 80 constantly recurred to in all his writings, that his works may almost be said to be made up of a series of parallel passages. Only when what he has said elsewhere has served in some fashion to explain what he says here, have I cited it. How the student is to use the notes may safely be left to the individual teacher. But one thing it seems wise to urge, and urge strongly that not a word of the lectures themselves be read until the first two sections of the Introduction have been talked over carefully in the classroom. This is to reverse the ordinary procedure.
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Biographie de l'auteur

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dutton Books
• Date d'édition: 1953
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460002198
• ISBN 13: 9780460002196
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible