Time Tide
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Ruskin, John) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Time Tide: Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds; Lecture to the Cambridge School of Art &C The letter that Ruskin wrote to Thomas Dixon in the early spring of 1867, greatly dissatisfied, critical, disintegrative even, as they may appear in parts of them, are really yet another attempt, one of many that he made, to create a new heaven and a new earth. In Modern Painters he had tried to show how the forms and the divine loveliness of nature, the mountains and the waters, might be brought to that same service through art and its inspiration. But time went on, and he lost his superb faith and innocence in viewing the change that the industrial Terror, as it seemed to him, and the greed for wealth threatened to work in his beloved England. At length, his youth having gone for ever, and his earlier hope passing with it, he turned to the writing of books which, like Unto this Last, went to the very base of the structure, leaving the towers and pinnacles for awhile to look after themselves. However, the critical and the creative impulses in Ruskin worked by an inevitable process of reaction. In his Crown of Wild Olive, the preface, it will be remembered, opens with a wonderful picture of the beauty of England and its lowland scenery near Carshalton; a picture which is no sooner finished than it is dashed with a dreadful brushful of black slime - emblem of the desecration of such fair scenes by the callous hand of man. Later, in this book of the Wild Olive - "type of grey honour and sweet rest," which still held up the vision of the land of promise where men might live sustained by the blue sky above and the sweet waters and flowers of the earth beneath - there came some of the most eloquently prophetic pages ever written by Ruskin. They occur in the lay sermon he delivered in Yorkshire, at Bradford, on the text of "Traffick," and "Good Taste the only Morality." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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