I - LOVE'S MEINIE (1873–1881)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2011
Summary
[Bibliographical Note.–The contents of the volume called Love's Meinie were in part delivered as lectures at Oxford. These were announced (University Gazette, March 4, 1873) as “Three Lectures on English and Greek Birds as the Subjects of Fine Art.” They were delivered as follows:–
Lecture i. “The Robin,” March 15 and 20.
Lecture ii. “The Swallow,” May 2 and 5.
Lecture iii. “The Chough,” May 9 and 12.
The second lecture was also delivered at Eton College, in two instalments, on May 10 and May 17, 1873. The lecture on the Chough is now for the first time published. Lecture iii. in the printed volume, on the Dabchicks, was never delivered.
The Eton lecture is briefly noticed, though not reported, in the Eton College Chronicle of May 15 and June 4 (pp. 756, 762). In a copy of Sesame and Lilies, presented by Ruskin with other of his books to the School Library, there is the following letter referring to the lecture:–
“Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 19th May, 1873.
“Dear Mr. Browning,–I spoke with very literal truth when I told the boys I had never been so much helped by anything as by their sympathy with me, and pleasure in what I tried to show them; and they have encouraged me to do what I seldom venture–to ask their acceptance of the series of my revised books, which I am now publishing, if with the permission of the Provost and masters, they may be placed in the Library of the Literary Society. […]
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 1 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1906