Author : Malcolm Craig
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548573157
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (731 download)
Book Synopsis Wayward Compass in Lakeland by : Malcolm Craig
Download or read book Wayward Compass in Lakeland written by Malcolm Craig and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of W.G. Collingwood, the first and only biography. He was a polymath who's life spanned the second half of the nineteenth century and 32 years of the following century. Described as: artist, writer, historian, antiquary, amateur geologist and amateur cartographer. He worked with John Ruskin for 19 years, who he first met at Oxford University where Ruskin was a Professor. Collingwood was at university with Oscar Wilde and later among his friends were artist Edward Burne-Jones and designer business man William Morris. He exhibited at the Royal Academy five times and wrote fiction and non-fiction, all published. Among his achievements was years of research and writing about life in pre-Norman northern England, which is used today in work done on a corpus of stone crosses of the period.