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- Frontmatter
- GENERAL PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
- EARLY PROSE WRITINGS
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- 1 “THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE; OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER” BY KATA PHUSIN (1837, 1838)
- 2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY” (1834, 1836), AND OTHER NOTES ON NATURAL SCIENCE
- 3 FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE” (1838, 1839), WITH A PAPER FROM LOUDON'S EDITION OF REPTON'S “LANDSCAPE GARDENING” (1840)
- 4 ESSAY ON THE RELATIVE DIGNITY OF THE STUDIES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC, AND THE ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THEIR PURSUIT (1838)
- 5 LEONI; A LEGEND OF ITALY (1836)
- 6 THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER (1841)
- 7 THREE LETTERS AND AN ESSAY. BY JOHN RUSKIN, 1836—1841 FOUND IN HIS TUTOR'S DESK
- 8 LETTERS TO A COLLEGE FRIEND (1840—45)
- APPENDIX
- Plate Section
4 - ESSAY ON THE RELATIVE DIGNITY OF THE STUDIES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC, AND THE ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THEIR PURSUIT (1838)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- GENERAL PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
- EARLY PROSE WRITINGS
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- 1 “THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE; OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER” BY KATA PHUSIN (1837, 1838)
- 2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY” (1834, 1836), AND OTHER NOTES ON NATURAL SCIENCE
- 3 FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE” (1838, 1839), WITH A PAPER FROM LOUDON'S EDITION OF REPTON'S “LANDSCAPE GARDENING” (1840)
- 4 ESSAY ON THE RELATIVE DIGNITY OF THE STUDIES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC, AND THE ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THEIR PURSUIT (1838)
- 5 LEONI; A LEGEND OF ITALY (1836)
- 6 THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER (1841)
- 7 THREE LETTERS AND AN ESSAY. BY JOHN RUSKIN, 1836—1841 FOUND IN HIS TUTOR'S DESK
- 8 LETTERS TO A COLLEGE FRIEND (1840—45)
- APPENDIX
- Plate Section
Summary
[Bibliographical Note.—Only a few extracts from the Essay on Painting and Music have hitherto been published. In the first edition of Mr. W. G. Collingwood's Life and Work of John Ruskin (i. 74—76) a brief synopsis is given, with two extracts (the first parts of § 6 and § 19). Some further passages are given in a volume, published in 1894, under the title “Ruskin on Music, edited by A. M. Wakefield” (George Allen). In that volume Miss Wakefield brought together the principal passages in Ruskin's works dealing with Music, and in ch. ii. (“Music and Early Influences”) she printed some extracts from this Essay. The passages included in Ruskin on Music are as follow: § 2, from “The power of enjoying Music” to “after the image of God”; § 4, down to “so sublime, a worship”; § 6, down to “Music be without the association”; § 8; § 10, down to “not altogether to be depended upon”; and § 17.
The passages from Ruskin's other works collected by Miss Wakefield are:—
(In ch. i. of Ruskin on Music, “Of the Ideal in Music”) Fors Clavigera, letter ix. (extracts).
(In ch. ii., “Music and Early Influences”) Prœterita, i. ch x. §§ 200, 202—204 (extracts); Letters to Dale, i. § 6 (p. 385, below); Modern Painters, vol. iii. preface, § 5 (short extract).
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 265 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903