The Desire of My Eyes: A Life of John Ruskin.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: March 23, 1991 | Copyright information

WHO now reads Ruskin? For many modern readers, he is but a ragged Victorian shadow. His enormous, shambling works, mingling art and morality, economics and classical myth, no longer sell. Those who know anything about him remember that he was unable to consummate his marriage because-allegedly-he was disgusted to find that live women, unlike Greek statues, had pubic hair.

Yet the claims once made for Ruskin were higher by far than the depths of his current eclipse. Ruski...

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