General Introduction John Ruskin

General Introduction
 I. LIFE AND WORKS OF RUSKINThe influence which Ruskin, the critic and philosopher and the master of a prose-style, eminently poetic in quality, exercised, not merely over the literature, but over the whole life and thought of two generations, is not the least extraordinary phenomenon of the nine­teenth century.
Parentage and Boyhood––If origin, if early training and habits