Volume 30, Number 5 · March 31, 1983

Ruskin Our Contemporary?

By Diane Johnson
The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin
by John Dixon Hunt

Viking, 512 pp., $25.00

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin
edited by George Allan Cate

Stanford University Press, 251 pp., $28.50

The Ruskin Polygon
edited by John Dixon Hunt, by Faith M. Holland

Manchester University Press, 284 pp., £30.00

New Approaches to Ruskin: Thirteen Essays
edited by Robert Hewison

Routledge and Kegan Paul, 229 pp., $22.50

Studies in Ruskin: Essays in Honor of Van Akin Burd
edited by Robert E. Rhodes, by Del Ivan Janik

Ohio University Press, 244 pp., $20.95

Letters from the Continent 1858
edited by John Hayman

University of Toronto Press, 207 pp., $29.50

Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
by Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Harvard University Press, 342 pp., $25.00

Ruskin and Venice
by Jeanne Clegg

Junction Books (London), 233 pp., £12.50

Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861
by Eve Blau

Princeton University Press, 219 pp., $40.00; $16.50 (paper)

The Poison Sky: Myth and Apocalypse in Ruskin
by Raymond E. Fitch

Ohio University Press, 722 pp., $35.00

Ruskin's Maze: Mastery and Madness in His Art
by Jay Fellows

Princeton University Press, 284 pp., $25.00

Raymond Fitch begins his remarkable intellectual biography of John Ruskin (The Poison Sky) by observing that Ruskin was, before all other things,



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