ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.

Detailed explanation-2: -“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Ruskin was an avid promoter of Gothic architecture and his writing influenced a widespread return from Neoclassicism to the earlier Gothic style.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ruskin was born in London in 1819 to a prosperous wine merchant, John James, and his pious evangelical wife, Margaret, who dedicated themselves to cultivating their only child’s genius. A present, on his 13th birthday, of a volume of Samuel Rogers’s poem Italy with vignettes engraved after watercolors by J. M. W.