Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring" and twigs of plant life

and twigs of plant life ― sparkles with an honest simplicity and clarity that discloses not only the wonder and science of nature

Written by influential Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870–1952)

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So throw off the bowlines

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Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring" and twigs of plant life"His pictures, which seemed to me then [aged 13] to be the very music made visible, plunged me a few fathoms deeper into my delight. I have seldom coveted anything as I coveted that book." C. S. Lewis Before portraying Wagner's "Ring," Arthur Rackham (18671939) had become England's leading illustrator through his interpretations of fairy and fantastic books: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rip van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Midsummer Night's