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Title. The phrase "Fors Clavigera" was intended to designate three great powers which form human destiny. These were: Force, symbolised by the club ( clava) of Hercules; For titude, symbolised by the key ( clavis) of Ulysses; and For tune, symbolised by the nail ( clavus) of Lycurgus.
- John Ruskin
- 1871
In John Ruskin: Cultural criticism of John Ruskin. …the following year he launched Fors Clavigera, a one-man monthly magazine in which, from 1871 to 1878 and 1880 to 1884 he developed his idiosyncratic cultural theories. Like his successive series of Oxford lectures (1870–79 and 1883–84), Fors is an unpredictable mixture of striking ...
8 mag 2019 · Fors Clavigera is a collection of essays by John Ruskin, a Victorian critic and social reformer, addressed to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain. He urges them to improve their condition by learning the arts and sciences, and to reject the false values of materialism and nationalism.
7 mag 2022 · Title: Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8) Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain. Author: John Ruskin. Release Date: May 7, 2022 [eBook #68013] Language: English
Quick Reference. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain By John Ruskin, issued monthly from January 1871 to March 1878, then at irregular intervals: two numbers appeared in 1880, four ... From: Fors Clavigera in The Oxford Companion to English Literature ». Subjects: Literature.
For many of Ruskin’s readers, and also for those who know him largely by reputation, Fors Clavigera is a baffling text. Serially published from 1871 to 1884, and nominally addressed to ‘the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, it is the most substantial publication of Ruskin’s Oxford years—600,000 words of radical and innovative prose.
5 mar 2014 · FORS CLAVIGERA. LETTERS TO THE WORKMEN AND LABOURERS OF GREAT BRITAIN; John Ruskin; Edited by Edward Tyas Cook, Alexander Wedderburn; Book: The Works of John Ruskin; Online publication: 05 March 2014
