Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Foreword xiv
7. Preface xvi
8. 1 Wrestling with the Text 1
9. 2 Sibelius and the Poems of the Idealistic Realist Runeberg 32
10. 3 Idle Wishes and Summer Nights 82
11. 4 Diamonds and Rears – Runeberg’s Contemporaries in Finland 117
12. 5 Longing for the Eternal – Nineteenth-Century Poets from Sweden 144
13. 6 Realism and Emerging Symbolism 185
14. 7 Solace of the Harp, Song to My Tongue – Other Nineteenth-Century Poets in Sweden 217
15. 8 Rapid Riders and Hoodwinked Women 268
16. 9 Betrayal, Urbanity and Decadence 304
17. 10 O, kämst du doch! 340
18. 11 A Last Kalevala Excursion 366
19. Appendix 379
20. Bibliography 395
21. General Index 405
22. Index of Sibelius’s Works 413