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Books by Harry Plunket Greene Plunket Greene has an easygoing, humorous and self-deprecating writing style and a gift for vivid story-telling. He engages the reader man to man: you feel you have become his good friend and companion. Both his singing and writing about song show him to be very sensitive to words and their effect, and this gives his own writing both precision and occasional beauty. One factor in the enduring popularity of 'Where the Bright Waters Meet' is the discovery and then loss of paradise. He recognises the power of nostalgia in shaping his tale. Old England was rapidly giving way before the modern age. 1912 Interpretation in Song, The Musicians Library, Macmillan and Co & Stainer and Bell, London 1916 Pilot and Other Stories, Macmillan and Co, London 1924 Where the Bright Waters Meet, Philip Allan & Co, London (many later editions, all now out of print) 1934 From Blue Danube to Shannon, Philip Allan & Co, London various articles in Music and Letters, - for instance in Volume 1, 1920, The Future of English Song (a subscription is necessary to see any article) - some are reproduced in From Blue Danube to Shannon. 1935 Charles Villiers Stanford, Edward Arnold, London 1946 with Edward C Bairstow, Singing Learned from Speech: A Primer for Teachers and Students, Macmillan, London
Books by Gwendolen Greene Gwen, Harry's wife, herself became a published author, with a series of books after her reception into the Roman Catholic Church in 1926, under the influence of her uncle, Baron Friedrich von Hügel (1852-1925), the scholar and spiritual guide. Her most popular book is still in print, the letters von Hügel wrote to her between 1918 and 1924. 1929 Letters from Baron F von Hügel to a Niece (edited, with an introduction by Gwendolen Greene) 1929 Mount Zion, J M Dent, London 1930 Two Witnesses - A Personal Recollection of Hubert Parry & Friedrich von Hügel, J M Dent, London 1935 The Prophet Child, Longmans Green & Co, London
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