The North Sea (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Chaim Harry Heine
- First Published: 1826
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, Love or romance, Nature, Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, Flowers, Christianity, Gods or goddesses, Sea or seafaring life, Shipwrecks, Separation, Water, Thought or thinking
The Poem
The North Sea is the last section of the collected poems in Heinrich Heine’s Buch der Lieder (1827; Book of Songs, 1856) and consists of two cycles of poems in free verse. In the final version, authorized by Heine, the first, optimistic cycle contains twelve poems and the second, less cheerful one has ten.
The title indicates how important the sea is for Heine as a setting. Despite predecessors such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, Heine is credited with having established the sea as a topic in German literature...
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