Singers and pianists never tire of exploring the songs of Schubert and Schumann, Wolf and Mahler. But discussions of these marvelous works have too often given only brief consideration to the
artistry of the poems-by such masters as Goethe, Heine, and Eichendorff-and to the composers' insightful interaction with that verbal art. Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the
Nineteenth-Century Lied is an anthology of truly interdisciplinary studies of text-music relations in the German Lied. The chapters gathered in it (including some published here for the first
time in English or indeed at all) were written by two musicologists-Rufus Hallmark and J�翹rgen Thym-and two German-literature specialists-Harry Seelig and the late Ann C. Fehn. An extensive
introduction by the volume's editor, J�翹rgen Thym, considers the fruitful ways in which the four authors meet the challenge of combining literary and musical analysis. J�翹rgen Thym is Professor
Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music
