Egdon Heath is a fictitious area of Thomas Hardy's Wessex inhabited sparsely by the people who cut the furze (gorse) that grows there. The entire action...
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Egdon Heath, Op. 47, H. 172, subtitled "A Homage to Thomas Hardy", is a tone poem by Gustav Holst, written in 1927. Holst considered it his most perfectly...
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highly regarded novels. The novel takes place entirely in the environs of Egdon Heath, and, with the exception of the epilogue, Aftercourses, covers exactly...
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2018.(subscription required) "Egdon Heath". The Times. 14 February 1928. p. 12. Adams, Byron (June 1989). "Egdon Heath, for Orchestra, Op. 47 by Gustav...
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set poems by Hardy to music. Holst also wrote the orchestral tone poem Egdon Heath: A Homage to Thomas Hardy in 1927. Although his poems were initially...
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the South East Purbeck ward which elects 1 member to Dorset Council. Egdon Heath, which figures prominently in Thomas Hardy's celebrated novel The Return...
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Orchestral works Beni Mora St Paul's Suite The Planets A Fugal Overture Egdon Heath Brook Green Suite Concertante A Fugal Concerto Double Concerto Lyric...
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Sorrow (2009) Europe War Egdon Heath Pt 1 Gustav Holst Egdon Heath, Op. 47, H. 172 Europe War Egdon Heath Pt 2 Gustav Holst Egdon Heath, Op. 47, H. 172 Europe...
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Orchestral works Beni Mora St Paul's Suite The Planets A Fugal Overture Egdon Heath Brook Green Suite Concertante A Fugal Concerto Double Concerto Lyric...
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Orchestral works Beni Mora St Paul's Suite The Planets A Fugal Overture Egdon Heath Brook Green Suite Concertante A Fugal Concerto Double Concerto Lyric...
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