King of the Golden River, The - Literature Guide


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King of the Golden River, The

I.	About the Author



II.	Overview



III.	Setting



IV.	Themes and Characters



V.	Literary Qualities



VI.	Social Sensitivity



VII.	Topics for Discussion



VIII.	Ideas for Reports and Papers

Literature Guide - King of the Golden River, The

Ruskin, John Published 1850

I About the Author

John Ruskin was the most notable art critic in Victorian England. Because he saw the visual arts as expressions of the moral life of the societies and artists which produced them, Ruskin's writings reflected the religious concerns of the Victorians. His judgments of good and bad art depended heavily on the evangelical Christian attitudes which he developed early in life. However, he combined this moral perspective with a profound love of art, instilled in him by his father, and a passionate devotion to the beauty of nature, enhanced by the works of the English Romantic poets. All of his writing is informed by a deep awareness of the power of nature's beauty over the imagination. ...

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