Heinrich Heine - Poems and Ballads

by Heinrich Heine

Overview

Contents:
Sonnets to my Mother
The Sphinx
Donna Clara
Don Ramiro
Tannhäuser
In the Underworld
The Vale of Tears
Solomon
Morphine
Song
HOMEWARD BOUND
SONGS TO SERAPHINE
To Angelique
Spring Festival
Childe Harold
The Asra
Helena
Song
THE NORTH SEA--First Cyclus
I.Coronation
II.Twilight
III.Sunset
IV.Night on the Shore
V.Poseidon
VI.Declaration
VII.Night in the Cabin
VIII.Storm
IX.Calm
X.An Apparition in the Sea
XI.Purification
XII.Peace
Second Cyclus
I.Salutation to the Sea
II.Tempest
III.Wrecked
IV.Sunset
V.The Song of the Oceanides
VI.The Gods of Greece
VII.The Phœnix
VIII.Question
IX.Sea-sickness
X.In Port
XI.Epilogue

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015495751
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	09/21/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	307 KB

About the Author

Harry Heine, as he was originally named, was born in Düsseldorf on the Rhine, December 13th, 1799. His father was a well-to-do Jewish merchant; and his mother, the daughter of the famous physician and Aulic Counlor Von Geldern, was, according to her son, a "femme distinguée." His early childhood fell in the days of the occupation of Düsseldorf by the French revolutionary troops; and, in the opinion of his biographer Strodtmann, the influence of the French rule, thus brought directly to bear upon the formation of his character, can scarcely be exaggerated. His education was begun at the Franciscan monastery of the Jesuits at Düsseldorf, where the teachers were mostly French priests; and his religious instruction was at the same time carried on in a private Jewish school. His principal companions were Jewish children, and he was brought up with a rigid adherence to the Hebrew faith. Thus in the very seed-time of his mental development were simultaneously sown the germs of that Gallic liveliness and mobility which pre-eminently distinguish him among German authors, and also of his ineradicable sympathy with things Jewish, and his inveterate antagonism to the principles and results of Christianity.