Nor, in what I have already, it may be thought, too bluntly said, ought the friends of the noble artist to feel that I am unkind. It is because I know his real power more deeply than any of the admirers who give him indiscriminate applause, that I think it right distinctly to mark the causes which prevented his reaching heights they did not conceive, and ended by placing one more tablet in the street of tombs, which the passionate folly and uninstructed confusion of modern English society prolong into dark perspective above the graves of its youth.
I am, dear Marks, always very faithfully yours,
J. Ruskin.
LETTERS ON ART.
VI.
ARCHITECTURE.
Gothic Architecture and the Oxford Museum. 1858.
Gothic Architecture and the Oxford Museum. 1859.
The Castle Rock (Edinburgh). 1857 (Sept. 14).
Edinburgh Castle. 1857 (Sept. 17).
Castles and Kennels. 1871 (Dec. 22).
Verona v. Warwick. 1871 (Dec. 24).
Notre Dame de Paris. 1871.
Mr Ruskin’s Influence—A Defence. 1872 (March 15).
Mr Ruskin’s Influence—A Rejoinder. 1872 (March 21).
Modern Restoration. 1877.
Ribbesford Church. 1877.
Circular relating to St. Mark’s, Venice. 1879.
VI.
ARCHITECTURE.
[From “The Oxford Museum,” by H. W. Acland and J. Ruskin. 1859. pp. 44-56.]
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