Title (MS VIII; Works [1903])—In
the
MS VIII draft, the title
“Source of the Arveron” appears to belong exclusively to the prose essay above which the title appears;
however,
Ruskin likely intended the title to head both the prose essay and the poem that immediately follows the essay,
the untitled verse,
“I woke to hear the lullaby”,
which
W. G. Collingwood entitled
“The Arve at Chamouni”
(see that poem and its textual gloss for the close relation between the poem and the prose essay). In other words,
Ruskinʼs title,
“Source of the Arveron” should be understood as a section title, like all the titles in the
MS IX fair copy,
and not the title just of the prose piece (
Ruskin, Works, 2:386–87).
The title appears toward the end of
Ruskinʼs
Proposed Table of Contents for the Account of a Tour on the Continent.