tailieunhanh - The Poetry of Architecture

Of this work Mr. Ruskin says in his Autobiography:—"The idea had come into my head in the summer of '37, and, I imagine, rose immediately out of my sense of the contrast between the cottages of Westmoreland and those of Italy. Anyhow, the November number of Loudon's Architectural Magazine for 1837 opens with 'Introduction to the Poetry of Architecture; or the Architecture of the Nations of Europe considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character,' by Kata Phusin. I could not have put in fewer, or more inclusive words, the definition of what half my future life was. | The Poetry of Architecture THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN VOLUME I POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE Library Edition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE SEVEN LAMPS MODERN PAINTERS Volume I NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER. PREFATORY NOTES. Of this work Mr. Ruskin says in his Autobiography The idea had come into my head in the summer of 37 and I imagine rose immediately out of my sense of the contrast between the cottages of Westmoreland and those of Italy. Anyhow the November number of Loudon s Architectural Magazine for 1837 opens with Introduction to the Poetry of Architecture or the Architecture of the Nations of Europe considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Kata Phusin. I could not have put in fewer or more inclusive words the definition of what half my future life was to be spent in discoursing of while the nom-de-plume I chose According to Nature was equally expressive of the temper in which I was to discourse alike on that and every other subject. The adoption of a nom-de-plume at all implied as also the concealment of name on the first publication of Modern Painters a sense of a power of judgment in myself which it would not have been becoming in a youth of eighteen to claim. As it is these youthful essays though deformed by assumption and shallow in contents are curiously right up to the points they reach and already distinguished above most of the literature of the time for the skill of language which the public at once felt for a pleasant gift in me. Prwterita vol. I. chap. 12. In a paper on My First Editor written in 1878 Mr. Ruskin says of these essays that they contain sentences nearly as well put together as any I have done since. The Conductor of the Architectural Magazine in reviewing the year s work said December