“…Brian Murdoch -- Dedication / Brian Murdoch -- Epigraph / Brian Murdoch -- Preface / BM -- Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions / Brian Murdoch -- The Classical World / Brian Murdoch -- Ovid (Often) Moralised: the Middle Ages / Brian Murdoch -- Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After / Brian Murdoch -- Ballads, Folk and Literary / Brian Murdoch -- Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric / Brian Murdoch -- The Challenge of Drama / Brian Murdoch -- The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After / Brian Murdoch -- Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques / Brian Murdoch -- Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays / Brian Murdoch -- Modern Experiments / Brian Murdoch -- Some Shallow Story of Deep Love? …”