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Selections from Heine's Poems: Edited, with Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Heinrich Heine

 
9781332786138: Selections from Heine's Poems: Edited, with Notes (Classic Reprint)

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It is easier to be generous to Heine than to be just 5 for justice to so inconsistent a personality would require the most painful counter-balancing of opposing qualities. Every where in his poetry we trace the continual conflict of the impulse toward a high and serious purpose with the stronger impulse to deride and to deny. In him the noble gift of poetic expression was entrusted to unworthy and even frivolous hands. His was a life without a moral centre.

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About the Author

Heine (1797-1856) was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German Romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for his lyric poems, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by Germanic composers, including Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner.

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