“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,” the author description off Amazon states.
The NYT reviewer notes: “The German Heine (1797-1856), one of the greatest of the Romantics, bears only a partial resemblance to our image of them; a Keats, say, or a Shelley.”
Well, just breezing over some of his “poems” anyone half claiming to understand poetry would see his lines were clichéd doggerel. Here is one of his bad poems:
THE SEA HATH ITS PEARLS
THE sea hath its pearls,
Shelley, you need not worry. "Ozymandias" this is not. The book, titled Travel Pictures, is translated by Peter Wortsman. Archipelago Books is the publisher.
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