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time later unfolded into a serious aesthetic with Ruskin and the
French symbolists. This Gothic taste, trite and ridiculous as it
first appeared to serious people, was yet a confirmation of
Blake’s diagnosis of the defects and needs of his age. It was
itself a pre-Raphael or pre-Gutenberg quest for a unified mode
of perception. In Modern Painters (vol. III, p. 91) Ruskin states
the matter in a way which entirely dissociates Gothic
medievalism from any historical concern about the Middle Ages.
He states the matter in a way that won him the serious
interest of Rimbaud and Proust:
A fine grotesque is the expression, in a moment, by
a series of symbols thrown together in bold and fearless
connection, of truths which it would have taken a long
time to express in any verbal way, and of which the
connection is left for the beholder to work out for himself;