The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin

Bloom, Harold (ed.). The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1969. First edition. Octavo. xxvii, 398pp. Original yellow cloth with black lettering on spine. “Ruskin’s protest is against the estrangement of things, and against the Romantic delight in seeing reduction, and then elevating the reduction to the ecstasy of enforced humanization. Van den Berg remarks somberly that the Romantic inner self became necessary when contacts between man and the external world became less valued.” (Bloom). Binding rubbed and sunned at spine. Stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. A couple of red ink notes in margin of page 2. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Hardcover. (41733) $45