New Year’s Poems
	In the Ruskin household, New Year’s Day was marked by Ruskin presentation of a poem to his father. . . .
	When this family tradition started is uncertain. The earliest poem specifically dated 1 January is . . .  and the earliest poem explicitly connected with New Year’s Day is . . .  “The Needless Alarm” and MS I as a whole
	For a Scottish family, New Year’s Day . . . (What was the celebration typically? Why New Year’s?) Ruskin would always treat New Year’s as a red-letter day connected with writing. . . .