Unwilling to reprint Modern Painters whole, Ruskin allowed his friend Susanna Beever to publish the passages she had copied out for her own pleasure. Grouped under the principles of art, the power of imagination, and the sky, streams and sea, mountains, stones and plants, they gather some of the finest descriptive prose in English, with Ruskin’s later notes.
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