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Oxford University Press has now published an invaluable selection in their 21st Century Oxford Authors series... * Seab Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books *

an invaluable selection ... hugely helpful annotations * Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books * The appearance of Richard Lansdown's new, extensive anthology of Ruskin's prose is to be warmly welcomed. It comes with a chronology, useful biographical notes on the artists and architects Ruskin discusses, helpful annotation which makes links between the selected texts and others not included, and an introduction which does its best to present Ruskin on his own terms while arguing for his continuing social and political relevance...Ruskin, who maintained that a building must be read like a book, wrote books which, at their best, have all the splendors of the Gothic cathedrals he loved. Richard Lansdown's anthology provides a much-needed guided tour of these monuments. * Paul Dean, The New Criterion * This is a fine work of reference. * Lawrie Groom, The Companion *

Recommended. Lower-divivision undergraduates through faculty. * N. Birns, CHOICE * This is a fine work of reference. * Lawrie Groom, The Companion * The appearance of Richard Lansdown's new, extensive anthology of Ruskin's prose is to be warmly welcomed. It comes with a chronology, useful biographical notes on the artists and architects Ruskin discusses, helpful annotation which makes links between the selected texts and others not included, and an introduction which does its best to present Ruskin on his own terms while arguing for his continuing social and political relevance...Ruskin, who maintained that a building must be read like a book, wrote books which, at their best, have all the splendors of the Gothic cathedrals he loved. Richard Lansdown's anthology provides a much-needed guided tour of these monuments. * Paul Dean, The New Criterion * an invaluable selection ... hugely helpful annotations * Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books *

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Richard Lansdown is a graduate of University College London. He is the author of three books on Lord Byron, one with Cambridge, the other two with Oxford University Press, and numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature, from Austen to Ibsen and Hardy to Berlioz and Delacroix. A New Scene of Thought: Studies in Romantic Realism was published in 2016, and Literature and Truth: Imaginative Literature as a Medium for Ideas is due in 2018, following on from The Autonomy of Literature in 2001. He taught in Finland and Australia before moving to The Netherlands in 2017.

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