FOOTNOTES:
[31] On the highway from Rennes to Brest. The forest is now known as Paimpont.
[32] The scene which served Mr. Converse, too long for quotation here, occurs in Book I of Keats's poem, beginning:
"... Yet hourly had he striven
To hide the cankering venom, that had riven
His fainting recollections."
and continuing to the end of Book I.
[33] The piano is here, as the composer has pointed out, treated not as a solo instrument, but "as an integral although very important part of the orchestral scheme, and whatever technically important moments it may have grow naturally out of the emotional contents, and not from the desire for a display of virtuosity."
[34] January 20, 1905.
[35] From "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night," in the section entitled "Calamus."
[36] "Euphrosyne" (from a Greek word signifying the personification of joy): one of the three Graces of Hellenic mythology. The Graces were originally regarded as goddesses of heavenly light, and were supposed to bring fertility to the fields and delight to men. Later they were conceived as goddesses of joy and beauty, and were associated with Hera, goddess of marriage, and with Aphrodite. Their parentage was attributed to Zeus and Eurynome.