Dr. Keith Hanley is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme Research Centre at Lancaster University where he also received his Ph.D.
2007 0-7734-5191-9 This work examines John Ruskin’s Romantic Tours to the Lake District and Scotland in the summers of 1837 and 1838. The author offers reconstructions of the itineraries, presents a sequence of fifty-two drawings made on those journeys, and provides his first sustained critique in what was to be Ruskin’s formative work of architectural criticism, the fourteen essays which make up The Poetry of Architecture. This book contains 52 black and white photographs.