John Ruskin’s Politics

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The same number of perusers of Ruskin know, dealing with his digressive style is a significant undertaking. His biographers and reporters have grappled with this trouble. Indeed, even such a warm admirer as youthful Arnold Toynbee grumbled to a companion about the maltreatments of ‘word painting’ and that ‘the most noticeably awful are those relentless pages of simple word-wiping which even Ruskin isn’t guiltless of.’