whole is a loving and ruminative evocation of Arnold's time and place. HughOttaway has characterised the work as "pastoral" in nature. Peter Pirie has postulated
drama raised in emotional power and expressiveness to the nth degree". HughOttaway and Michael Kennedy have commented on musical connections between the
true light (from the Salisbury Diurnal, translation by G. H. Palmer) HughOttaway and Christopher Palmer have commented on the stylistic affinity of Hymnus
Oxford Orchestral Series no. 102 (London: Oxford University Press, 1934). HughOttaway and Alain Frogley, "Vaughan Williams, Ralph", The New Grove Dictionary
'National' Opera," The Opera Quarterly, volume 20, no. 2, Spring 2004 HughOttaway, Review of recording of Hugh the Drover. Musical Times, 120(1642), 1011
the Wayback Machine, Royal Danish Library. Retrieved 23 October 2010. HughOttaway, "Nielsen's Saul and David". The Musical Times, 118(1608), pp. 121, 123–124
Shariff, Madam By-Ends; Emyr Lloyd Jones, Bunyan; Ross Cumming, Pilgrim HughOttaway, "Vaughan Williams: Symphony in D and The Pilgrim's Progress. A Comparative
Elegiac Meditation Scherzo & Cortege (1942) Recorded by Columbia in 1928 HughOttaway. " Ireland, John (Nicholson)", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online
transformed as Walton's own voice becomes more prominent. The critic HughOttaway commented that in both pieces "the interaction of two musical personalities
Oxford Orchestral Series no. 102 (London: Oxford University Press, 1934). HughOttaway and Alain Frogley, "Vaughan Williams, Ralph", The New Grove Dictionary