The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm M ller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder--in particular Die sch ne M llerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She considers other poets' explorations of the subject, and looks at other musical settings of M ller's mill poems. Above all she examines M ller's permutation of the literary legends...