TY - JOUR
AU - Cookson, George
AB - REVIEWS OF BOOKS From fairy-tale lands he brings us back to Anqther speaker was Dean Inge, and, England again, and to the old Elm Tree, in- characteristically, he emphasized Ruskin's extricably confused with a Granny at _the debt to Plato, who was his daily study, and con- street-corner waiting for a bus; to the squirrel, firmed him in the faith that was fundamental skipping along the highest branches, 'fur-tail in all his teaching, whether social or artistic, following'; to the 'gallant Sun, all his medals that there are certain eternal, absolute, ulti- shining'. mate values which exist in their own right. How good, in these days of questioned and The Sonnets are scarcely sonnets in the muddled values, it is for us to remember the accepted sense, except for the fact that they fixed stars and unalterable law of the heavens! have fourteen lines and sometimes a quasi- The point was turned to account by another sonnet rhyme-scheme—but what's in a name? speaker, Sir Kenneth Clark, Director of the The last of them, called Sleep, holds in its National Gallery, in regard to Ruskin's belief fourteen uneven pseudo-pentameters such an that Art and Morals are dependent on one agony 
TI - Raskin's Influence To-day
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/5.29.169
DA - 1945-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/raskin-s-influence-to-day-R0SJs7LKhN
SP - 169
EP - 169
VL - 5
IS - 29
DP - DeepDyve
ER -