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Delphi Complete Works of John Ruskin (Illustrated)

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The leading art critic of the Victorian era, John Ruskin created a large body of work, writing influential essays and treatises on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy, to name but a few. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of John Ruskin, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

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Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ruskin’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the famous art books and other texts

* ALL the art criticism and published prose works, with individual contents tables

* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Famous works such as MODERN PAINTERS and THE STONES OF VENICE are fully illustrated with their original artwork

* The complete poetry is presented in the scholarly Cook and Wedderburn edition

* Special alphabetical contents tables for the poetry - easily locate the poems you want to read

* The complete letters of the FORS CLAVIGERA with footnotes (Cook and Wedderburn), including the famous Whistler pamphlet – first time in digital print

* All the travel books

* Includes Ruskin’s rare autobiography PRAETERITA (Cook and Wedderburn), accompanied with the scarce DILECTA

* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Ruskin’s contribution to literature and art criticism

* Features a bonus biography - discover Ruskin’s literary life

* Even offers a special illustrated section on Ruskin’s paintings

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Art Criticism

MODERN PAINTERS

THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE

PRE-RAPHAELITISM

GIOTTO AND HIS WORKS IN PADUA

LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING DELIVERED AT EDINBURGH IN NOVEMBER, 1853

LETTERS TO THE “TIMES” ON THE TURNER BEQUEST 1856, 1857

NOTES ON THE TURNER GALLERY AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING

A JOY FOR EVER

THE TWO PATHS

THE ELEMENTS OF PERSPECTIVE

SESAME AND LILIES

LECTURES ON ART DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN HILARY TERM, 1870

ARATRA PENTELICI

THE EAGLE’S NEST

THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE

ARIADNE FLORENTINA

FRONDES AGRESTES

VAL D’ARNO

NOTES BY MR. RUSKIN ON HIS DRAWINGS BY THE LATE J. M. W. TURNER

THE LAWS OF FÉSOLE

NOTES ON SAMUEL PROUT AND WILLIAM HUNT

CIRCULAR RESPECTING MEMORIAL STUDIES OF ST. MARK’S, VENICE

THE ART OF ENGLAND

THE PLEASURES OF ENGLAND

FINAL LECTURES AT OXFORD

LECTURES ON LANDSCAPE

LECTURES AND NOTES FOR LECTURES ON GREEK ART AND MYTHOLOGY

The Travel Books

THE STONES OF VENICE

MORNINGS IN FLORENCE

ST. MARK’S REST

‘OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US’

Other Prose Works

THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER

THE HARBOURS OF ENGLAND

‘UNTO THIS LAST’

THE ETHICS OF THE DUST

THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE

TIME AND TIDE BY WEARE AND TYNE

LEONI: A LEGEND OF ITALY

THE QUEEN OF THE AIR

FORS CLAVIGERA

MUNERA PULVERIS

LOVE’S MEINIE

PROSERPINA

ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH PROSODY

ARROWS OF THE CHACE

THE STORM CLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

ON THE OLD ROAD

PRAETERITA

HORTUS INCLUSUS

RUSKINIANA

The Poetry

INTRODUCTION TO RUSKIN’S POETRY by E. T. Cook

THE POEMS: TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Paintings

RUSKIN’S PAINTINGS

The Criticism

RUSKIN by G. K. Chesterton

RUSKIN by Henry Major Tomlinson

RUSKIN AS POET by W. H. Davenport Adams

CONTEMPORARY NOTES ON WHISTLER vs. RUSKIN by Henry James

RUSKIN by Virginia Woolf

The Biography

THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN by W. G. Collingwood

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