Love's Meinie

Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

by John Ruskin

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Love's Meinie presents three lectures on Greek and English birds, with the contents naming the robin, the swallow, and the dabchicks as lecture subjects. The discussion of nomenclature complains of confusion in modern science and of the difficulty of finding a useful fact among the names. The lecturer has thirteen plates of birds of prey in hand and questions whether students should first be allowed a shared name reflecting their resemblance.

The account calls Stellaris much the brightest in color of three and reports uncertainty about the reason for the name. The water rail entry questions a collected foreign name and suggests that confusion between birds affects several popular names.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era and an influential social thinker whose ideas on art, labor, and society shaped movements from the Pre-Raphaelites to the welfare state.