1. All poem references from, Selected poems of Arnold, Browning and Tennyson, prescribed by The University of Toranto and Ontario, Dept. of edn for 1917-forgotten books
2. Mathew Arnold., Letters of Mathew Arnold 1866-1870, vol-3.
3. "Matthew Arnold, 'The Scholar Gipsy,' and the Cumnor Hills" – a topographical essay by Dick Sullivan
4. Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 472.
5. Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough, November 1853, cited from Carl Dawson (ed.) Matthew Arnold: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1995) vol. 2, p. 123.