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Ruskin Revealed
Ladd, Henry | July 10, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Exquisite Tragedy: An Intimate Life of John Ruskin," by Amabel Williams-Ellis. The curious thing about the book is that Ruskin's story is made convincing by no great verbal magic. Mrs. Williams-Ellis is not, in the ordinary sense, a literary artist; her style is readable but undistinguished. But her genius lies in keeping the reader's mind focused on the subject: the descriptive splendors, the aphorisms seem to be all Ruskin's; even the intrepid shriveling irony seems to arise from the movement of the facts rather than from the idiom of the author's phrase. In achieving a wide appeal, however, the author has had to slight any full exposition of Ruskin's aesthetic and social theories.

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EXQUISITE Tragedy: An Intimate Life of John Ruskin, The (Book); WILLIAMS-Ellis, Amabel; RUSKIN, John; GENIUS; MAGIC tricks; TALES
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