The Touchstones of Poetry (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Touchstones of PoetryJohn Ruskin, on the other hand, notwithstanding his possession of certain Greek qualities, is, in his prevailing disposition and mode of regarding life, essentially Hebraic. He is Greek in his curiosity, his love of philosophic science, and his sensitiveness to beauty. But he is Hebraic in virtue of traits which predominate over these, and which have given his life all its rational sequence and unity. The exaltation of truth above beauty is but one index of his earnest, strenuous nature. In his indignation at cruelty and callous selfishness, in his sense of the sacredness of life, and the love liness of all its manifestations, when unperverted, in his fellow-feeling with universal humanity, and in his deep and tender reverence for woman, Ruskin is akin to the sages, the prophets, and the singers who kept alive, through ages of darkness and misrule, the Hope of Israel, which was also the Hope of the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.