Book of Songs (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Chaim Harry Heine
- First Published: 1827
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Folk music or folk songs, Germany or German people, Romanticism
Critical Evaluation:
Although it is generally conceded that Heinrich Heine’s finest poetry was not written until his last years, the Book of Songs, which assembled his entire lyrical output to the age of twenty-six, remains the core of his poetic work. The book gained immediate popularity and appeared in a new edition every other year for decades. German critical opinion of the period cited Heine for writing in the spirit and with the simple accents of German folk song, but he soon became a controversial figure. His merits are still fiercely disputed in German...
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