RUSKIN’S STYLE

Ruskin occupies a prominent place in the history of English prose. He is certainly one of the greatest masters of English prose style. Living in an age, when grand style was popular, he made his contribution to English prose without indulging in “Lylyan antitheses and similes or Johnsonian parellelism and balance.” Language is a flexible instrument in his hand and he bends it to many uses—