Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 "Göttlicher Mörike!": an introduction to Eduard Mörike and Hugo Wolf -- "AUF GOLDNER TÖNE LEITER!": MÖRIKE AND MUSIC -- "NOT POEMS, BUT ENTIRE POETS": FROM POETIC ANTHOLOGY TO WOLF -- Chapter 2 Peregrina revisited: songs of love and madness -- OF GYPSIES, WANDERERS, AND POETS IN THEIR YOUTH: THE BIOGRAPHICAL BACKDROP -- IN A MIRROR DARKLY: THE PEREGRINA POEMS -- WOLF'S PEREGRINA: MIRRORS IN MUSIC -- Chapter 3 Agnes's songs: the fictional misfortunes and musical fortunes of a nineteenth-century madwoman -- "MIR KRANKEN BLUT WILL NICHTS MEHR GELINGEN": WOMEN, SEX, HYSTERIA, INSANITY -- A HARVEST OF LAMENTATION: "ROSENZEIT! WIE SCHNELL VORBEI" -- THE DEATH OF AGNES -- OF SIGHS, SIN, AND QUESTIONS: TWO MAD SONGS -- Chapter 4 Sung desire: from Biedermeier erotica to fin-de-siècle lied -- RE-IMAGINING PORNOGRAPHY: "ERSTES LIEBESLIED EINES MÄDCHENS" -- PAIRED SONGS, UNPAIRED PERSONAE: DESIRE IN THE BLANK SPACES -- DESIRE WITHOUT END: "DER GÄRTNER" -- Chapter 5 Believers and doubters: case-studies in the geistliche Lieder -- "I HAVE BECOME - A VICAR . . . CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?": MÖRIKE, GOD, AND POETRY -- THE CASE OF "GEBET": GOD, THE WILL, AND ART -- THE CASE OF "AUF EIN ALTES BILD" -- Notes -- 1 "Göttlicher Mörike!": an introduction to Eduard Mörike and Hugo Wolf -- 2 Peregrina revisited: songs of love and madness -- 3 Agnes's songs: the fictional misfortunes and musical fortunes of a nineteenth-century madwoman -- 4 Sung desire: from Biedermeier erotica to fin-de-siècle lied -- 5 Doubters and believers: case-studies in the geistliche Lieder -- Select bibliography -- Index.