{"product_id":"white-eyes-dark-ages-book-deborah-randall-9781852242220","title":"White Eyes, Dark Ages","description":"White Eyes, Dark Ages is a portrait by many hands of that eminent Victorian, John Ruskin, painted by a poet writing a century after his death. Deborah Randall pictures Ruskin, the inner man, through the eyes of his women: his young wife Effie, who left him for the painter Millais; Rose La Touche, who died on him; and his indulgent cousin Joan Severn. But this isn't a biography, or a conventional portrait.    Ruskin said only the broken mirror can tell you what love means. Deborah Randall's poems holds a broken mirror to a man deeply divided, his thoughts fragmented, a man 'doomed' - his father said - 'to enlighten a people by his wisdom'. Ruskin speaks in parts:    - No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspendent darkness...  - I have hardly any real warmth of feeling, except for pictures and mountains...  - I want somebody to be kind to me without making me think - or feel...  - Do I want to keep her from growing up? Of course I do...    And he and his women answer back in poems showing the many facets of a genius tormented in his twilight years by painful joys and disappointments.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563198914833,"sku":"GOR002863212","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852242221.jpg?v=1751457217","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/white-eyes-dark-ages-book-deborah-randall-9781852242220","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}