Poetry of Architecture, The
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Preface
_ PREFATORY NOTES.
Of this work Mr. RUSKIN says in his Autobiography:--"The idea had come into my head in the summer of ‘37, and, I imagine, rose immediately out of my sense of the contrast between the cottages of Westmoreland and those of Italy. Anyhow, the November number of Loudon‘s _Architectural Magazine_ for 1837 opens with ‘Introduction to the Poetry of Architecture; or the Architecture of the Nations of Europe considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character,‘ by Kata Phusin. I could not have put in fewer, or more inclusive words, the definition of what half my future life was to be spent in discoursing of; while the _nom-de-plume_ I chose, ‘ACCORDING TO NATURE,‘ was equally expressive of the temper in which I was to discourse alike on that, and every other subject. The adoption of a _nom-de-plume_ at all implied (as also the concealment of name on the first publication of ‘Modern Painters‘) a sense of a power of judgment in myself, w
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