The Life of John Ruskin: Volume 2, 1860–1900

E. T. Cook's two-volume biography is a vital tool for anyone wishing to understand Ruskin's achievements in so many fields.

Edward Tyas Cook (Author)

9781108009720, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

640 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm, 0.8 kg

In 1911, the New York Times alerted its readers to the forthcoming 'authoritative' biography of Ruskin with the words 'out of a life's devotion to Ruskin and the Herculean task of editing the definitive Ruskin, Mr E. T. Cook is to give us a definitive Ruskin biography also. It will have the authority of a brilliant Oxford scholar, combined with the charm and lightness of a style which makes Mr Cook one of the first of English journalists'. Cook had been given complete access to Ruskin's diaries, notebooks and letters by his literary executors, and Ruskin's family and friends co-operated fully with him. His depth of knowledge of, and sympathy for, his subject make Cook's biography a vital tool for anyone wishing to understand Ruskin's extraordinary achievements in so many fields. Volume 2 covers the period from 1860 to Ruskin's death in 1900, and includes an index to both volumes.

1. Unto This Last
2. Exile
3. Boulogne–Lucerne–Milan
4. Mornex - Munera Pulveris
5. Home life at Denmark Hill
6. Sesame and Lilies - The Crown of Wild Olive - The Ethics of the Dust
7. Time and Tide
8. Ruskin's political economy
9. Abbeville and Verona
10. Oxford professor
11. First Oxford lectures
12. A dark year
13. Botticelli
14. With St Francis at Assisi
15. The end of a romance
16. Home life at Brant wood
17. Venice revisited
18. Fors Clavigera
19. The St George's Guild
20. The Ruskin Museum
21. Schools of St George
22. Arrows of the Chace
23. 'The dream'
24. Studies of flowers and rocks
25. Return to work
26. The Bible of Amiens - further illnesses
27. Second professorship at Oxford
28. Praeterita
29. Old age and last works
30. Closing years
31. Characteristics
32. Influence
Index.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]