Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This is the best book on Ruskin since Elizabeth Helsinger's Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder, perhaps since Rosenberg's Darkling Glass. With clarity and grace, Sawyer constructs a history of Ruskin's mind from readings of all the major works, emphasizing his spirituality, his economics, and his psychic disturbances—showing in each case how these concerns shape individual literary works. Neither critical biography nor biographical criticism, Ruskin's Poetic Argument is a triumphant blending of both." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)