Foreword / by Daniel Grimley
Preface
Wrestling with the text
Sibelius and the poems of the idealistic realist Runeberg
Idle wishes and summer nights
Diamonds and rears : Runeberg's contemporaries in Finland
Longing for the eternal : nineteenth-century poets from Sweden
Realism and emerging symbolism
Solace of the harp, song to my tongue : other nineteenth-century poets in Sweden
Rapid riders and hoodwinked women
Betrayal, urbanity and decadence
O, kämst du doch!
A last Kalevala excursion
Appendix. List of Sibelius's songs by opus number ; Alphabetical list of Sibelius's songs without opus numbers ; Alphabetical list of Sibelius's songs by English title ; Alphabetical list of Sibelius's poets ; Text of the Two Lost Songs, op. 72 nos. 1 and 2 ; Text to the Melodrama Ett ensamt skidspår (Gripenberg).