Thinking Through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic LyricThinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals. The title signals the contribution to debates about reading. Do we think 'through' 'by means of', 'with' poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces? Is this compatible with a second meaning: 'thinking through' poems to their end solving a problem, getting to its root, its deep truth? Third, can we square these surface and depth readings with a speculative, philosophical