Songs of Love and Grief: A Bilingual Anthology in the Verse Forms of the Originals (European Poetry Classics) - Softcover

Heine, Heinrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810113244 ISBN 13: 9780810113244

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover:

Although many of Heine's poems are deceptively simple on the surface, the multiple allusions, word plays, and shifts and breaks in diction and tone make them almost untranslatable. Arndt not only renders the meaning of the originals, but preserves the poems' rhyme schemes as well as their moods and multiple cultural resonance.

About the Author:

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0810113244
• ISBN 13: 9780810113244
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 227