A Joy For Ever (Esprios Classics)

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