Product Description: A scholarly and detailed account of Griggs' life.

Discusses the work of Samuel Palmer as the basis of the revival in English landscape painting, illustrating his influence on other major British artists, such as Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland.

Pursues the Elgar and sets out the story of an extraordinary creative life. This book shows themes of childhood, fantasy, and vision fusing into a mature style of nobility and nostalgia. It links the composer to the English landscape that informed his work from his earliest years.

Product Description: F. L. Griggs was universally acclaimed as one of the finest etchers of his time. An influential figure in British Romantic art, Griggs's work links that of Turner, Blake, and Samuel Palmer with the Neo-Romantics Graham Sutherland and John Piper...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Traces the life of the Confederate general

Product Description: Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the most significant English composers of this century and a key architect of the English Musical Renaissance. Much from his prodigious output has entered the standard repertoire, and he is well-known for a number of major works, including the Tallis Fantasia, Serenade to Music, and the Fifth Symphony...read more

Product Description: This book, prepared by one of the world's premier Elgar scholars, draws from over ten thousand letters to present a comprehensive and compelling picture of Elgar and his times. Moore has selected letters to and from a wide range of acquaintances and friends--family members, great literary and musical figures, those people "pictured" in the Enigma Variations--to provide a fascinating record of over fifty years of a great, creative life...read more

Product Description: This record of Elgar's intimate friendship with Alice Stuart Wortley--daughter of the painter Millais and wife of an MP--and her family chronicles a period of great artistic accomplishment set against a brilliant background of Edwardian theater, Royal Academy dinners, and private concerts...read more

Product Description: This pictorial record of the life of Sir Edward Elgar contains contemporary postcards, family photographs, and newspaper illustrations that combine to form an illuminating and moving portrait of the great composer.

Product Description: Throughout his career, Elgar sought confidants in the publishing world, and when he found someone to whom he could open his heart, the letters that followed were among the most arresting ever written on the creative life. In this comprehensive collection, Jerrold Northrop Moore has gathered every letter of importance between Elgar and his publishers, including for the first time the correspondence between Elgar and his finest friend, the publishing manager of Novello, A...read more

Product Description: Book by Moore, Jerrold Northrop