Publication Information
	A great many of Ruskin’s early works must be designated as previously unpublished. For those that have been published, readers are urged to attend to my cautions in this introduction concerning earlier editors’ heavy-handed interventions in Ruskin’s texts.
	Publications are cited in their order of appearance, starting with those in Ruskin’s lifetime, if any, such as poems in gift annuals or in the 1850 Poems by “J.R.” I do not cite press notices of the annuals, some of which liberally quoted from Ruskin’s poems. My lists continue with the major subsequent editions—Collingwood’s edition of the poetry (PJR) and the Library Edition (Works). Pagination differs somewhat in the editions of PJR—the large edition, which features reproductions of Ruskin’s drawings and manuscripts, and the more commonly available small edition, which omits the plates and replaces the facsimiles of manuscripts with transcriptions in the notes. For researchers’ convenience, I cite separately the large, quarto edition as “PJR (4o)” and the small, octavo edition as “PJR (8o),” where paginations differ; and I cite them together as “PJR (4o, 8o),” where paginations match. (See List of Abbreviations.)
	The major early Ruskin bibliographies, such as those by Axon and by Smart and Wise, are also cited, when these quoted liberally from the poems. 
	Only quotations from previously unpublished works are cited from Collingwood’s Life of Ruskin, ignoring quotations in the Life from works that the editor had already printed in his PJR. The same policy holds for Cook, Life. Collingwood’s Life was first published in 1893, but extensively rewritten in 1900, so it is necessary to cite both editions. Moreover, as with PJR, pagination varies even among different editions of both the 1893 and the 1900 versions. For the 1893 version I cite large (1893a) and small (1893b) editions, and for the 1900 version I cite [information to come]. (See List of Abbreviations.)
	Other earlier editions, such as James Osborne Wright’s 1882 and 1884 American publications of Poems by John Ruskin, are cited as an indication of the availability of Ruskin’s early writings prior or in addition to the major editions, PJR and Works. Most of these collections of Ruskin’s poems published toward the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, such as those edited by J. R. Tutin and by G. K. Chesterton, contain the same poems in the same order, and probably pirated from one another. Omitted are reprintings of Ruskin’s poems in later anthologies, which rely on the pioneering editions for their texts.
	In more recent times, brief quotations from unpublished works have occasionally appeared in critical and biographical studies that draw on archival research, such as Emerson’s RGI, Finley’s NC, and Hunt’s WS, and these are documented. Of course, acknowledgment is also given for the recent and textually more accurate editions of the early writings, those edited by Van Akin Burd and James Dearden. I have made extensive efforts to capture any first publication or quotation of a work, and I apologize in advance for oversights.