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CHAPTER XVIII - FORS CLAVIGERA (1871–1878)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

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“ Do you read Ruskin's Fors Clavigera, which he cheerily tells me gets itself reprinted in America? If you don't,do, I advise you. Also hisMunera Pulveris, Oxtord-Lectures on Art, and whatever else he is now writing,—if you can manage to get them (which is difficult here, owing to the ways he has towards the bibliopolic world!). There is nothing going on among us as notable to me as those fierce lightning-bolts Ruskin is copiously and desperately pouring into the black world of Anarchy all around him. No other man in England that I meet has in him the divine rage against iniquity, falsity, and baseness that Ruskin has, and that every man ought to have.”

—Carlyle (Letter to Emerson, April 2, 1872).

Ruskin returned to England from Venice in June 1877. Eight months later he was prostrated by the first of recurring attacks of brain-fever. The literary and artistic work detailed in previous chapters were connected in one way or another with his Professorship of Art at Oxford. The work to which we have now to turn was undertaken in his selfappointed role as Prophet—as one charged to warn his generation of its sins, to show to it, if it might be, the way of its salvation. Unpractical as he is commonly called, and as in the vulgar sense he certainly was, Ruskin was strongly possessed by the instinct and passion for practice.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1911

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