Arthur Christopher Benson

Ruskin: a Study in Personality Arthur Christopher Benson

The following volume consists of seven lectures on the life and work of Ruskin, delivered in the Hall of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in the Michaelmas term of 1910. I had intended vaguely to recast them in a more formal shape ;not because they were not carefully compiled and composed, but because they were written as lectures to be heard, and not as a book to be read. But I found on reflection that this would entail rewriting the whole book on an entirely different scheme. Nor indeed do I think that another small biography of Ruskin is required ;though a great and full biography of him is needed, and is being written, I understand, by Mr. E. T. Cook, the editor of the large standard series of Ruskin scomplete works. The situation is, of course, at present somewhat complicated by nearness of view and considerations of personal intimacies ;but the time is not far off when we shall be able to realise what the ultimate effect of his work and message has been upon the world.
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