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Abrams, M. H., 43, 94, 113, 199 diatonicism, 22, 29, 44, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73–4, 76, Adams, Byron, 175 91, 130, 163, 166–7 Adorno, Theodor W., 205 du Pre´, Jacqueline, 137–9, 140, 141 Aeolian harp, 101–10, 111–13, 145, 216 Allis, Michael, 20, 23, 39, 117, 202, 204 Elgar Birthplace cottage, 11, 12, 81, 92, 120, 125 Anderson, Robert, 68, 85, 93, 206, 207, 208, 211 Elgar, Lady Caroline Alice, 39, 40, 59–68, 74, 90, angels, 95, 96–100, 118, 137, 138, 167, 168, 170, 171, 105, 188, 214 172, 175, 188–9, 198 ‘The Ideal in the Present’, 60–6, 68 Arnold, Matthew, 180 Elgar, Sir Edward Sketches Baldwin, Stanley, 82, 110, 148 Humoreske: A Tune from Broadheath, 116, Barrie, James, 9, 87, 118, 217 123–4, 125 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 21, 27, 65, 70 works Benjamin, Walter, 14 After Many a Dusty Mile Op. 45 No. 3, 90 Birchwood Lodge, 83, 93, 166 Apostles, The Op. 49, 78, 83, 191, 195 Blackwood, Algernon, 39, 94, 96, 126–9, 134 Banner of St George, The Op. 33, 83, 153, 159 Blake, William, 170, 175 Caractacus Op. 35, 83, 136, 152, 153, 154, Boer War, the, 9, 164–5 159–60, 162, 164, 165–7 Brinkwells cottage, 39–40, 41, 84 Concerto for cello and orchestra Op. 85, 32, Britons, ancient, 160–4, 165 39, 41, 51, 78, 138–42, 145, 146–7, 184 Broadheath, Worcestershire, 12, 81, 84, 92, 93, Concerto for violin and orchestra Op. 61, 120–4, 125 1–5, 10, 27–8, 32, 36, 40, 78–80, 108–10, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 39 112, 139, 172, 185 Burne-Jones, Edward, 9, 61, 62–3 Coronation Ode Op. 44, 152, 154 Crown of India, The Op. 66, 154 Cannadine, David, 12, 13, 125, 211, 222 Death on the Hills Op. 72, 39 Cardus, Neville, 139, 140 Dream Children Op. 43, 38, 217 Carroll, Lewis, 118, 217, 218, 219 Dream of Gerontius, The Op. 38, 93, 96–100, childhood, see Romantic child, the 106, 109, 112, 137, 168, 170, 172, 173, 175, chivalry, 4, 13, 52, 56, 57, 58, 69 188, 189, 190, 195, 198, 204, 224 Cobbett, William, 14, 175 ‘Enigma’ Variations Op. 38, 23, 32–3, 112, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 42, 94, 101, 102, 172, 188 119, 167 Falstaff Op. 68, 31–2, 75–7, 78, 114, 129, 167, Colvin, Sir Sidney, 85–6, 90, 91, 120 172, 185 cricket, 13, 140 From the Bavarian Highlands Op. 27, 83 Crump, Jeremy, 13, 82 Herald, The, 39 Imperial March Op. 32, 159 Day Lewis, C., 85, 182–6, 190, 192, 195, 197 In the South (Alassio) Op. 50, 83, 159, 173 demons, 167, 168, 170–1, 172, 173, Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op. 47, 188, 189 24–6, 29, 44, 48, 84, 106, 112, 114, 171, Dent, Edward J., 55–7, 58–9, 77 172, 180

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Elgar, Sir Edward (cont.) Hoffmann, E. T. A., 66 Kingdom, The Op. 51, 96, 216 Howes, Frank, 144 King Olaf, Scenes from the Saga of Op. 30, 38, 57, 153, 155, 157–60, 167, 179 imperialism, 82, 144, 149, 152–5, 157, 164, Land of Hope and Glory, 13, 16 165, 167 Music Makers,The Op. 69, 70, 122, 204 Nursery Suite, 34 Jaeger, A. J., 40, 41, 70, 83, 86, 160, 166, Pipes of Pan, The, 90 210, 215 Quintet for piano and strings Op. 84, 33–4, Jameson, Frederic, 14 37, 39–40, 41, 112 Sanguine Fan, The Op. 81, 90 Kastner, Georges, 102–5, 106–7, 110 Sea Pictures Op. 37, 141 Kennedy, Michael, 17, 69, 70, 80, 84, 85, Serenade for strings Op. 20, 22, 24, 90 144, 145, 153, 178, 195, 199, 203, 204, 207, Sonata for organ Op. 28, 22, 24 212, 219 Sonata for violin and piano Op. 82, 33, 34, Kingsley, Charles, 69, 156 112, 141 Kipling, Rudyard, 87, 143, 153, 193, 222 Suite for strings, 90 Starlight Express, The Op. 78, 93, 94, 96, 126, Lambert, Constant, 54, 77 128, 129, 134, 164 Last Night of the Proms, 16, 145, 153 Symphony No. 1 Op. 55, 26–7, 28, 29, 37, Liszt, Franz, 21, 55, 56, 57 44–5, 47, 48, 67, 70–3, 74, 90–2, 112, 126, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 38, 52, 156, 134, 145, 150–1, 180 157, 159 Symphony No. 2 Op. 63, 28–31, 32, 34, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45–8, 49, 51, 68, 70, 73–4, Mahler, Gustav, 144 84, 112, 113, 145, 178, 180, 186 Maine, Basil, 75, 77, 90, 207 Wanderer, The, 39 Malvern Hills, 13, 39, 41, 81, 83, 84, 93, 114, 124, Wand of Youth, The Suites Nos. 1 and 2 140, 150, 151, 160, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, Op. 1A and 1B, 90, 115–16, 124, 125, 126, 174, 181, 184, 188, 195 130, 133 Manichaeism, 128–9 Elgar Society, the, 12 McGuire, Charles, 222 Englishness, 10, 16, 18, 82, 143, 145, 146, 147–9, McVeagh, Diana, 40, 84, 85, 205, 212 150, 151, 152, 160, 165, 174, 175 memory, 4, 23, 24, 26, 27–8, 31, 32–3, 37, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 67, 77, 92–3, 100, Freud, Siegmund, 28, 37, 125, 197 112, 116, 121–2, 185–6, 192, 197 anamnesis and, 128, 129 ghosts, 37–41, 45–8, 54, 86, 167, 172, 180, 183, 184, dualism and, 23–4, 37, 39 193, 196 nostalgia and, 11, 12, 14, 15 gothic, the, 38, 42 musical techniques of, 20–2, 23–4 Grahame, Kenneth, 9, 87, 88, 89, 91, 116, 125 Romanticism and, 42, 49–51, 128 The Wind in the Willows, 87, 89–90, 195 Mendelssohn, Felix, 21, 33 Gray, Cecil, 54–5, 56, 59, 77, 80, 143–4 Menuhin, Yehudi, 139 Great War, the, 10, 52, 54, 69, 78–80, 141, 148, Moore, Jerrold Northrop, 13, 39, 40, 84, 86, 93, 153, 192 117, 120–6, 145, 178 Grimley, Daniel M., 40, 87, 178, 212 Morris, William, 9, 14, 15, 175 Grogan, Christopher, 116, 201 nature Hamilton-Paterson, James, 40, 177, 191–6, 197 childhood, compared with, 134 Harper-Scott, J. P. E., 117, 203, 205, 206, 210, Elgar’s allusions to, 83, 85–6, 93 219, 222 form and, 111–13 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 61 literary tropes of, 86–9, 94–5, 101–2 Henty, G. A., 164 memory, compared with, 112 Hepokoski, James, 39, 73, 74, 202, 203, 205, musical imitations of, 90–2, 96–100, 106–10 206, 216 Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 93, 94, 95–6, heritage industry, 11–12, 13, 150 100, 175 Hofer, Johannes, 5, 8, 11 The Dream of Gerontius, 92

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Newman, Ernest, 39, 57–8, 67, 68, 69, 80, 93, 94, Sassoon, Siegfried, 54, 55, 77–80, 106 95–6, 100, 108, 110, 145, 156, 160, 175, 178, Schiller, Friedrich, 6–7, 61–2, 63, 68, 101 180, 186, 204, 206 Schubert, Franz, 21, 33 on Elgar’s music, 57–8, 69, 110, 145, 156, Schumann, Robert, 21, 24, 34 160, 178 sea, 178, 180, 185, 190, 191, 197 nobility Severn, river, 81, 84, 85, 90, 92, 119, 122, 123, 124, criticism of, 52–7 125, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 188, idealism and, 59–68, 70–3, 74, 76–7 190, 192, 194 undermined in Elgar’s music, 68–77, 167 sexuality, 170, 171, 174, 175 Elgar’s musical rhetoric of, 57, 69–70, 166 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 29, 42, 43–4, 48, 49, 94, 96, nobilmente, 3, 52, 57, 58, 76, 79 101, 102 nostalgia Sims, Charles, 88 criticism of, 6, 11–12, 13 Sitwell, Osbert, 54, 77, 80 defences of, 13–16, 197–8 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 9, 86, 88, 91 etymology, 5 history of, 5–8 Teme, river, 84, 90, 177, 192 homesickness and, 5 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 69, 74, 101, 143 imperialist, 154, 157, 159, 167 Thomson, Aidan J., 76, 202, 204, 206, 210 reflective, 15, 17, 59, 117, 129 time, 7, 26, 48, 95, 118, 121, 181, 185–6 restorative, 15, 17, 52, 59, 117 cyclical, 7, 178 rhetoric of, 15 linear, 7, 124, 129, 178, 185, 194, 201 measured, 7, 24, 74, 137, 185 Pan, 86, 87–90 suspended, 24, 44, 48, 74, 181, 185 Payne, Anthony, 13, 68, 69, 70, 80, 144 reconciliation with, 50, 185 Penny, Dora, 105, 207 Trowell, Brian, 56, 194, 201 Perryman, Norman, 177, 186–90, 197 Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 69, Pownall, David, 40, 41–2, 86, 110, 111, 142 84, 189 Priestley, J. B., 48, 69, 139–40, 146–52, 153, 174, 197 uncanny, the, 20, 37, 42, 49, 112 on Elgar, 149–52 on Englishness, 147–9, 174 Vikings, Victorian interest in, 155–6 Pro-Boers, 165 Proust, Marcel, 22, 42, 44 Ward, Mrs Humphrey, 61, 65 Watts, George Frederick, 61, 62, 63–5, 67, 208 Reed, W. H., 84, 91, 105–8, 109, 112, 206 Wiener, Martin J., 53, 66 reeds, 85–7, 88, 89–90, 92, 111, 119, 122–3, 125, 171, Wilde, Oscar, 9, 88 180, 181, 184, 185, 188, 189, 194, 197 Worcester, 10, 22, 92, 93, 114, 121, 122, 140, repression, 28, 31, 149 190, 197 Richards, Jeffrey, 153, 154, 221, 222 Worcester Cathedral, 81, 84, 177, 178, 184, rivers, 88, 90, 177–80, 186, 190, 194, 197 188, 190 Romantic child, the, 117–20, 126, 133, 138, 141–2 Worcestershire, 10, 12, 13, 39, 40, 59, 81, 82, 83, 84, Romanticism, literary, 7, 17, 22, 24, 34, 42, 43, 50, 85, 93, 110, 111, 114, 124, 125, 152, 160, 167, 51, 66, 85, 86, 94–6, 100, 102, 111, 113, 168, 175, 177, 181, 182, 184, 188, 192 117–20, 125, 133, 141, 179, 193, 196 Wordsworth, William, 22, 42, 43, 44, 50, 74, 94, Rosaldo, Renato, 154 95, 101, 102, 118, 119, 125, 128, 137, 197 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 6, 60, 87, 117, 161 Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 118, 125, 128 Rowe, Alick, 40 Prelude, The, 42, 94–5, 102, 119 Rudkin, David, 40, 146, 167–76, 197 Tintern Abbey, 50 Ruralist artists, the, 81, 86, 219 Rushton, Julian, 178, 203, 212, 224 Yeats, W. B., 68, 80, 87 Ruskin, John, 9, 14, 69 Young, Percy, 59 Russell, Ken, 114, 168, 171, 197 Yule, Paul, 141