Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Wrestling with the Text
- 2 Sibelius and the Poems of the Idealistic Realist Runeberg
- 3 Idle Wishes and Summer Nights
- 4 Diamonds and Rears – Runeberg’s Contemporaries in Finland
- 5 Longing for the Eternal – Nineteenth-Century Poets from Sweden
- 6 Realism and Emerging Symbolism
- 7 Solace of the Harp, Song to My Tongue – Other Nineteenth-Century Poets in Sweden
- 8 Rapid Riders and Hoodwinked Women
- 9 Betrayal, Urbanity and Decadence
- 10 O, kämst du doch!
- 11 A Last Kalevala Excursion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Sibelius’s Works
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Wrestling with the Text
- 2 Sibelius and the Poems of the Idealistic Realist Runeberg
- 3 Idle Wishes and Summer Nights
- 4 Diamonds and Rears – Runeberg’s Contemporaries in Finland
- 5 Longing for the Eternal – Nineteenth-Century Poets from Sweden
- 6 Realism and Emerging Symbolism
- 7 Solace of the Harp, Song to My Tongue – Other Nineteenth-Century Poets in Sweden
- 8 Rapid Riders and Hoodwinked Women
- 9 Betrayal, Urbanity and Decadence
- 10 O, kämst du doch!
- 11 A Last Kalevala Excursion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Sibelius’s Works
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Songs of Jean SibeliusPoetry, Music, Performance, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023