Songs of Love and Grief: A Bilingual Anthology in the Verse Forms of the Originals

heinrich heine jeffrey l. sammons walter w. arndt

A translation of Heinrich Heine's love poems. This bilingual edition includes an introduction by Heine scholar Jeffrey L. Sammons. The author aims to capture the meaning of the original, but preserve the poems' rhyme schemes as well as their moods.

Genres poetrygerman literatureclassicsliterature19th century

227 pages, Paperback

First published November 22,1995

This edition

Format: 227 pages, Paperback
Published: November 22, 1995 by Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113244
ASIN: 0810113244
Language: English

About the author

heinrich heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose is distinguished by its satirical wit and irony. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.