Volume 32, Number 16 · October 24, 1985
First Loves
By John Bayley
John Ruskin: The Early Years, 1819–1859
by Tim Hilton
Yale University Press, 301 pp., $22.50
Either you see the point of Ruskin or you don't. Once the Victorian age was over, he lapsed into limbo like Carlyle, with whom he has a marked spiritual and stylistic affinity, and in his own country at least became the kind of curiosity whom Lytton Strachey delighted to mock in his suave studies of the monsters—awful or pathetic—who existed before Bloomsbury brought enlightenment.
Review, 2177 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |