Further Reading
- Allen, Philip Schuyler, Wilhelm Müller and the German Volkslied, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1899, 159p. Reprinted in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, II (1898-99): 283-322; III, No. 1 (1901): 35-91; and III, No. 4 (1901): 431-91. (Assesses the extent of the influence of the German folk songs on Müller's lyrics, especially in terms of diction and the portrayal of a sense of nature.)
- Baumann, Cecilia C., Wilhelm Müller: The Poet of the Schubert Song Cycles: His Life and Works, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981, 191 p. (Devotes the first chapter to a lengthy biographical sketch of Müller. Treats the varied roles assumed by Müller as well as his legacy, and includes an extensive bibliography.)
- Brown, Maurice J. E., Schubert: A Critical Biography, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958, 414 p. (Includes biographical and critical passages on Müller and his poetry.)
- Capell, Richard, Schubert's Songs, 2nd ed., rev. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957, 292 p. (Describes Franz Peter Schubert's adaptation of Müller's Die schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise.)
- Cottrell, Alan P., Wilhelm Maller's Lyrical Song-Cycles: Interpretations and Texts, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970, 170 p. (Discusses Müller's cycles Die schöne Müllerin, Die Winterreise, and Frühlingskranz aus dem Plauenschen Grunde bei Dresden as well as Müller's poetic imagination.)
- Hatfield, James Taft, "Unpublished Letters of Wilhelm Müller," American Journal of Philology XXIV, No. 2 (April, May, June 1903): 121-48. (Presents fifteen previously undiscovered and unpublished letters in German by Müller with brief introductory or following comments in English by Hatfield.)
- Kramer, Richard, "The Cycles in Winterreise," In his Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song, pp. 151-87. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. (Explores Franz Peter Schubert's handling of both the original and augmented versions of Müller's Winterreise cycle.)
- Marshall, H. Lowen, "Symbolism in Schubert's Winterreise," Studies in Romanticism 12, No. 3 (1973): 607-32. (Analyzes the musical devices used by Franz Peter Schubert to express meaning and feeling beyond that conveyed by Müller's words alone.)
- Reeves, Nigel, "The Art of Simplicity: Heinrich Heine and Wilhelm Müller," Oxford German Studies 5 (1970): 48-66. (Studies Heine's quest for simplicity of expression in literature—with reference to the achievement of such expression by Müller and his inspiration of Heine.)
- Youens, Susan, "Poetic Rhythm and Musical Metre in Schubert's Winterreise," Music & Letters 65, No. 1 (1984): 28-40. (Considers how Franz Peter Schubert expresses and interprets the meaning and rhythm of Müller's poetry through sensitive use of musical meters.)
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