Among these were The Earthly Paradise, much in the manner of the great Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer; The Aeneid of Virgil; and The Odyssey, in the metrical style of the English dramatist and classical translator George Chapman. ... He established the Kelmscott Press in 1890, and, using his own designs for the type and ornamental letters, he issued editions of the classics and of his own works, notably The Kelmscott Chaucer. ... The story of his early years was told by Ruskin himself in his last work, an unfinished autobiography, Praeterita. ...

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