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177: “And She Put the Sun in her Pocket!” (or, How Falling in Love Really Happens)
Ruskin, it is often said, is a polymath. I’ve never much liked the word, finding it a bit harsh and carrying an intimation that he was more concerned with numbers than he ever was. It derives from the Greek, polumathēs, … Continue reading
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Tagged A. H. R. Bell, al cuore non si commanda, Alan Fairford, Desdemona and Othello, Fors Clavigera, Fors Clavigera Letters 47, Francesca Alexander, John Ruskin, Lucia Alexander, polymath, Redgauntlet, Romeo and Juliet, Rosalind and Orlando, Rose La Touche, Ruskin, Ruskin as Literary Critic, Ruskin's portrait of Rose La Touche, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, The Ruskin Compendia, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
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