Not what the title suggests -- it's a literary pilgrimage, a musical pilgrimage, to the backgrounds which brought forth such people as the Lake Poets, the Brontes, Trollope, Chaucer, Meredith, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Wagner, Goethe, and so on. From the modern scene, Sibelius and Rolland emerge, in their own settings. A book for leisurely reading -- and will appeal to the conservative intellectual.