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John Ruskin
(1819–1900)

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English art critic; Pseudonym, Kata Phusin; while best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, is also remembered as an author, poet and artist

Works

The Bibliography of Ruskin: A Bibliographical List Arranged in Chronological Order by Richard Herne Shepherd, 1882 IA
Salsette and Elephanta, 1839 short work Internet Archive identifier: salsetteelephant00rusk
Poems (1835-1846)
The Poetry of Architecture (1837-1838)
The King of the Golden River, or The Black Brothers (1841) Internet Archive identifier: ofgoldenriveking00ruskrich
Modern painters: their superiority in the art of landscape painting to all the ancient masters, proved by examples of the true, the beautiful, and the intellectual from the works of modern artists, especially from those of J. M. W. Turner, 1843 Internet Archive identifier: gri_33125010813760, Internet Archive identifier: modernpainters27ruskgoog, Internet Archive identifier: in.ernet.dli.2015.42809, Internet Archive identifier: modernpainters02conggoog, Internet Archive identifier: modernpainters00conggoog
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849, Index)
Pre-Raphaelitism (1851, Index)
The Stones of Venice (1851-1853, [Internet Archive identifier: stonesofvenice01byurusk], [Internet Archive identifier: stonesofvenice02byurusk], [Internet Archive identifier: venicestones03rusk], [Internet Archive identifier: venicestones03ruskgoog]
Lectures on architecture and painting, 1854 Internet Archive identifier: lecturesonarchit00rusk
Architecture and Painting (1854)
Giotto and his works in Padua, 1854 Internet Archive identifier: giottohisworksin00rusk_0
On the Nature of Gothic Architecture, 1854 short work Internet Archive identifier: onnaturegothica01ruskgoog
The opening of the Crystal Palace, short work 1854 Internet Archive identifier: openingofcrystal03rusk
Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, 1855 Internet Archive identifier: notesonsomeprin00ruskgoog
Construction of Sheepfolds
Harbours of England
The political economy of art, 1857 Internet Archive identifier: politicaleconom01ruskgoog
The elements of drawing: in three letters to beginners, 1857 Internet Archive identifier: drawinelementsof00ruskrich
Notes on the Turner gallery at Marlborough house: 1856-7, Internet Archive identifier: notesonturnergal00rusk
The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, 1858 Internet Archive identifier: trueandbeautifu00ruskgoog
The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858–1859 Internet Archive identifier: twopathsbeingle00ruskgoog
Inaugural soirée of Cambridge city, sch . of art, mr. Ruskin's address, 1858 short work Internet Archive identifier: inauguralsoirem00ruskgoog
Sketchings, 1859-01-01 in The Crayon, Internet Archive identifier: jstor-25527852
The Elements of Perspective: Arranged for the Use of Schools, 1859 Internet Archive identifier: elementsperspec00ruskgoog
Unto This Last (1860) Internet Archive identifier: in.ernet.dli.2015.5387
The Laws Of Fesole, 1861 Internet Archive identifier: in.ernet.dli.2015.87574
A Joy For Ever, and its price on the market, or The Political Economy of Art (1857 / 1880)
Modern Painters [1] (1843-1860)
Munera Pulveris: Essays on Political Economy (1862-1863 / 1872) ((transcription project), 1894)
Sesame and Lilies (1864-1865) Internet Archive identifier: sesameliliestwol00rusk
Cestus of Aglaia (1864)
Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious, 1865 Internet Archive identifier: preciousthought01tuthgoog
The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Chrystallisation (1866) Internet Archive identifier: in.ernet.dli.2015.22751, Internet Archive identifier: ethicsofdus00rusk
An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting "the study of architecture" in our schools, 1866 short work Internet Archive identifier: inquiryintosomeo00ruskrich
The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War (1866, Index) Internet Archive identifier: crownofwildolive00ruskiala
On banded and brecciated concretions, 1867 v short work Internet Archive identifier: b22395519
Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work (1868, Index)
The Afternoon Lectures on Literature & Art, 1869 Internet Archive identifier: afternoonlectur01unkngoog
The Flamboyant Architecture of the Somme (1869)
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm (1869) Internet Archive identifier: queenofairbeings00rus
Lectures on art: delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 Internet Archive identifier: bub_gb_R1YmLfeugzwC
Catalogue of examples arranged for elementary study in the university galleries, 1870 Internet Archive identifier: catalogueofexamp00rusk
Verona and its Rivers (1870)
Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, 1871 Internet Archive identifier: forsclavigeralet03rusk
The Relation Between Michael Angelo and Tintoret, 1872 short work Internet Archive identifier: relationbetween00ruskgoog
Val d'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories, given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1872
The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, 1873 Internet Archive identifier: eaglesnesttenle02ruskgoog
Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms, 1873 Internet Archive identifier: cu31924031222387
Love's meinie: lectures on Greek and English birds, 1873 short work Internet Archive identifier: lovesmeinielectu00ruskin
Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, 1873 Internet Archive identifier: ariadneflorenti02ruskgoog
Theory of the Glaciers of Savoy, 1874 Internet Archive identifier: theoryglacierss00rendgoog
Letter to Young Girls, 1876
"Preface" to A Protest against the Extension of Railways in the Lake District (1876), By Robert Somervell
Mornings in Florence (1877)
Pearls for Young Ladies (1878)
Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (1871-1880, Index)

Index to Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, 1887 Internet Archive identifier: indextoforsclavi00rusk

Fiction, Fair and Foul (1880)
The Art of England: Lectures Given at the University of Oxford (1883-1884)Internet Archive identifier: artenglandlectu01ruskgoog
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884)
The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given at the University of Oxford (1884-1885)
- The Pleasures of Learning (ed. 1888)
- The Pleasures of Faith (ed. 1888)
- The Pleasures of Deed (ed. 1888)
- The Pleasures of Fancy (ed. 1888)
The Bible of Amiens (1885, Index)
Proserpina
- Proserpina, Volume 2, Studies Of Wayside Flowers (1886)
The Best Hundred Books (1886) (transcription project)
Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life (1885-1889)
Ulric, the farm servant, [1907] Internet Archive identifier: ulricfarmservant00gottrich
Kings' Treasuries and Queens' Gardens
War, Commerce, and Work
Letters to a Working Man
A Wreath of Wild Olives

Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

The Works of John Ruskin

Volume 1. Early prose writings (transcription project)
Volume 2. Poems (transcription project)
Volume 3-7. Modern painters (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Volume 8. The seven lamps of architecture (transcription project)
Volume 9-11. The stones of Venice (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
Volume 12. Lectures on architecture and painting, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 13. Turner, The harbours of Engand (transcription project)
Volume 14. Academy notes, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 15. Elements of drawing, Elements of perspective, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 16. A joy for ever, The two paths, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 17. Unto this last, Munera pulveris, Time and tide, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 18. Sesame & lilies, Ethics of the dust, Crown of wild olive, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 19. Cestus of Aglaia, Queen of the air, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 20. Lectures on art, Aratra pentelici, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 21. The Ruskin art collection at Oxford (transcription project)
Volume 22. Lectures on landscape, Michaelangelo & Tintoret, The Eagle's nest, Ariadne Florentina (transcription project)
Volume 23. Val d'Arno, The schools of Florence, Mornings in Florence, The shepherd's tower (transcription project)
Volume 24. Giotto, Cavalli monuments, Guide to the Academy, St. Mark's rest (transcription project)
Volume 25. Love's meinie, Prosperpina (transcription project)
Volume 26. Deucalion (transcription project)
Volume 27-29. Fors clavigera (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
Volume 30. The guild and museum of St. George (transcription project)
Volume 31. Bibliotheca Pastorum (transcription project)
Volume 32. Studies of peasant life (transcription project)
Volume 33. The Bible of Amiens, Valle crucis, The art of England, The pleasures of England (transcription project)
Volume 34. The storm-cloud of the nineteenth century, On the old road, Arrows of the chace, Ruskiniana (transcription project)
Volume 35. Præterita, Dilecta (transcription project)
Volume 36. Letters, 1827-1869 (transcription project)
Volume 37. Letters, 1870-1889 (transcription project)
Volume 38. Bibliography, Catalogue of Ruskin's drawings, etc. (transcription project)
Volume 39. General index (transcription project)

Lectures

Miscellaneous

"The Pine Tree" in Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909

Works about Ruskin

Books

Rural architecture, or, Designs for villas, cottages, etc.: in the Italian, Gothic, Elizabethan, Old English, and Swiss styles, with descriptions and an essay on rural architecture and landscape gardening, including a critique on Ruskin's new theoretical principles of design by Marriott Field, 1857 Internet Archive identifier: ruralarchitectur00fiel
John Ruskin by Brownlee Brown, 1857-11-01 from The Crayon, Volume 4. Internet Archive identifier: jstor-25527643
Three great teachers of our own time, 1865 Internet Archive identifier: threegreatteache00jappuoft
Modern men of letters honestly criticised by James Hain Friswell, 1870 Internet Archive identifier: cu31924013260439
John Ruskin, economist, by Patrick Geddes, 1884 IA
John Ruskin, social reformer, by John Atkinson Hobson, 1898 IA
John Ruskin, by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell, 1900 IA
John Ruskin, by Frederic Harrison, 1902 IA
Life of John Ruskin, by Ashmore Wingate, 1910 IA
The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. Collingwood, 1911
The Life of John Ruskin, by Edward Tyas Cook, 1911 IA, IA
Ruskin's politics, by Bernard Shaw, 1921 archive.org

Articles

"Ruskin, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Ruskin, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Ruskin," a chapter in Varied Types by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1905
"John Ruskin," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
"Ruskin, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Ruskin, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
"Mr. Ruskin on Women and War" in Littell's Living Age, 127 (1645)
"Modern Warfare" in Littell's Living Age, 130 (1679)

Bibliography

The bibliography of Ruskin (transcription project)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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