Anyone interested in Ruskin will be more interested in William Cobbett and William Morris -- especially Cobbett, whose advice on farming and small-scale product

Anyone interested in Ruskin will be more interested in William Cobbett and William Morris -- especially Cobbett, whose advice on farming and small-scale productivity is very intriguing reading today. Chesterton, Belloc, Lewis, and Tolkien inherited Cobbett's, Morris', and Ruskin's prejudices, but there was no longer an English peasantry to defend in their day; so they had more of an air of crotchety carping old-timers than Cobbett, Morris, or Ruskin ever did.