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References
- 1 2 Kennedy, Michael (1987). Portrait of Elgar (Third ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 350. ISBN 0-19-284017-7.
- ↑ Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Preston, Harriet Waters (1900). The Complete Poetical Works of Mrs. Browning. Houghton Mifflin. pp. 155–156.
- ↑ Text taken from: Barrett Browning, Elizabeth (1856). Poems. Vol. 2 (4th ed.). London: Chapman & Hall. pp. 150-153., showing Elgar's alterations in [brackets], according to: "How he sleepeth! having drunken (Browning, set by Edward Elgar, Sir, Rudolph T. Werther)". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
- Percy Young, Elgar O.M.
