Hebrew Melodies (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Chaim Harry Heine
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, God, Jews or Jewish life, Christianity, Kings, queens, or royalty, Israel or Israelis, Talmud, Jews and Gentiles, Middle East, Hebrew language, Synagogues
The Poems
“Hebrew Melodies,” Heinrich Heine’s series of three poems, written in 1851, constitutes the third and final section of Romanzero, a collection published that year and also containing groups of “Historien” (Tales) and “Lamentationen.” The title Romanzero suggests old-fashioned romantic ballads, but the volume is actually a compendium of sophisticated mid-nineteenth century poetry. The title of the sequence was suggested to Heine by the “Hebrew Melodies” of George Gordon, Lord Byron (1815), though the two sets of poems have little or...
[The entire page is 1851 words long]
