 Moreover, for this most personal of his works, Elgar must have felt some real aptness in the choice.Arthur Somervell's song-cyle, on Tennyson's 'Maud' was originally produced (with twelve songs) in 1898 and was championed by Plunket Greene.In 1899 he married Gwendolen Maud, the youngest daughter of Hubert Parry, and their first son was born in 1901.