Beate Julia Perrey is Junior Research Fellow in Music at Christ's College Cambridge. She writes on music, art and poetry.

"Including wide-ranging discussions of the aesthetic potentials of the interrelations of musical and written languages, this book will best serve specialists." Choice

• List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Early Romantic Forms of Difference: 1. Introduction; 2. The Romantic fragment; 3. Romantic irony; 4. Reflection, language and music; 5. Theories of song: Schumann's 'higher sphere of art'; Part II. Heine's Signature of Modernity: The Lyrisches Intermezzo: 6. Introduction; 7. Heine, the Romantics and disenchantment; 8. Endings, cuts, cyclicity; 9. Heine's imago of a woman; 10. The genesis of the Buch der Lieder; Part III. The Poetics of Dichterliebe: 11. Introduction; 12. Schumann's reception of Heine and the Buch der Lieder; 13. Musico-poetic analysis; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Beate Julia Perrey is Junior Research Fellow in Music at Christ's College Cambridge. She writes on music, art and poetry.

"Including wide-ranging discussions of the aesthetic potentials of the interrelations of musical and written languages, this book will best serve specialists." Choice

• List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Early Romantic Forms of Difference: 1. Introduction; 2. The Romantic fragment; 3. Romantic irony; 4. Reflection, language and music; 5. Theories of song: Schumann's 'higher sphere of art'; Part II. Heine's Signature of Modernity: The Lyrisches Intermezzo: 6. Introduction; 7. Heine, the Romantics and disenchantment; 8. Endings, cuts, cyclicity; 9. Heine's imago of a woman; 10. The genesis of the Buch der Lieder; Part III. The Poetics of Dichterliebe: 11. Introduction; 12. Schumann's reception of Heine and the Buch der Lieder; 13. Musico-poetic analysis; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Beate Julia Perrey is Junior Research Fellow in Music at Christ's College Cambridge. She writes on music, art and poetry.

"Including wide-ranging discussions of the aesthetic potentials of the interrelations of musical and written languages, this book will best serve specialists." Choice

• List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Early Romantic Forms of Difference: 1. Introduction; 2. The Romantic fragment; 3. Romantic irony; 4. Reflection, language and music; 5. Theories of song: Schumann's 'higher sphere of art'; Part II. Heine's Signature of Modernity: The Lyrisches Intermezzo: 6. Introduction; 7. Heine, the Romantics and disenchantment; 8. Endings, cuts, cyclicity; 9. Heine's imago of a woman; 10. The genesis of the Buch der Lieder; Part III. The Poetics of Dichterliebe: 11. Introduction; 12. Schumann's reception of Heine and the Buch der Lieder; 13. Musico-poetic analysis; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.