Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Music and Abstraction -- 2. Music and Fantasy -- 3. German Romanticism and Music -- 4. Negative Poetics: On Skepticism and the Lyric Voice -- 5. Rethinking the Scale of Literary History -- 6. Mozart, Bach, and Musical Abjection -- 7. Moods at Mid-Century: Handel and English Literature, 1740-1760 -- 8. Passion and Love: Anacreontic Song and the Roots of Romantic Lyric -- 9. Haydn's Whimsy: Poetry, Sexuality, Repetit -- 10. Non Giovanni: Mozart with Hege -- Notes -- Index.