General

• A Brief Introduction to His Life and Works
• Introduction (by Paul Sawyer)

Juvenilia

• Marcolini, 1836
• "Leonis", 1836
• The Poetry of Architecture, 1837

The King of the Golden River, 1841

• John Ruskin and The Literary Fairy Tale
• As literary fantasy
• Reading and discussion questions

Modern Painters, 1843-60

• Introduction to individual volumes
  • Volume I
  • Volume II
  • Volume III
  • Volume IV
  • Volume V
• Interarts Criticism — Painting, Poetry, and Architecture as Sister Arts
  • Ruskin and the tradition of ut pictora poesis
  • The use and moral value of art
  • Painting and poetry as expressive arts
  • Implications of the alliance
  • Ruskin on the Grotesque
  • The Symbolical Grotesque — theories of allegory, artist, and imagination
  • Imitation, the Languages of Art, and Nature's Infinite Variety
  • Pathetic Fallacy
• Aesthetic Theories
  • Ruskin's refutation of "False Opinions Held concerning Beauty"
  • Typical Beauty
  • Vital Beauty
  • Sublimity
  • The Picturesque

The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1848

• Full text plus additional images and added links
• inspired revival of the Adobe Style of the American Southwest.

The Stones of Venice, 1851-53

• “The Quarry,” text of the opening chapter
• Introduction
• "On the Nature of Gothic"
• On the Nature of Gothic — E. K. Helsinger
• The Grotesque
• The Plan: History as Typology (Sawyer)
• History as Nostalgia (Sawyer)

"A Joy Forever" 1857

• John Ruskin's Political Economy of Art: Valuing Victorian Artist's Labor

Unto This Last, 1860

• Sitemap (homepage)
• Complete text (on this site)
• Introduction (Landow)
• Introduction (Sawyer)
• Ruskinian satiric definition
• A Symbolical Grotesque from Ruskin's "The Roots of Honor"
• Mocking Pseudo-Science in "The Roots of Honor"
• Margaret Oliphant on Unto This Last

Munera Pulveris, 1863, 1872

• Sitemap (homepage)
• Complete text (on this site)
• Introduction from Library Edition

The Ethics of the Dust

• Discussion

The Queen of the Air

• problematic relation of perception to interpretation of myth
• Discussion 1 and Discussion 2

Sesame and Lillies, 1864-69

The Crown of Wild Olive

• "Work" (text) (discussions)
• "Traffic," 1858 (text — discussions)

Fors Clavigera, 1871-84

Introduction
• Associates artist and worker
• Sympathy and the Sympathetic Imagination
• Narrates loss of belief — compared to Praeteria
• Religion of humanity
• Symbolism and Concealed Meanings
• Ruskin: Writing about Himself Writing about Himself

Proserpina

• discussion

Deucalion

• discussion

Ruskin's Oxford Lectures

• Ruskin's 1883 Lecture on the "Realistic Schools of Painting"

Praeterita, 1886-88

• Sitemap
• Introduction
• Ruskin's Childhood
• The Structure of Ruskin's Praeterita
• Dominant Patterns and Structure
• Early religious training and belief
• Loss of belief
• Return to belief
• Ruskin interpreting Ruskin (chapter in the Oxford "Past Masters" volume on Ruskin

Related Materials

• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of The King of the Golden River, Sesame and Lilies, and The Stones of Venice