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One of Germany's most illustrious poets, Heinrich Heine is also celebrated for his idiosyncratic and vibrant prose. Heine's lyrical, humorous, and revealing vision in these four accounts of his voyages in Italy and Germany raises Travel Pictures into the transcendent realm of great journey literature. Over one hundred poems pepper the text.
Heinrich Heine (17971856) was one of the most significant German Romantic poets. Many of his poems were set to music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.
Peter Wortsman is an author and translator. His translations from the German include work by Robert Musil, Peter Altenberg, and Adelbert von Chamisso.
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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.
A recipient of the Beard's Fund Short Story Award, Fulbright and Thomas J. Watson Foundation fellowships, Peter Wortsman is the author of "A Modern Way To Die: small stories and microtales" (1991). His translations from the German include "Telegrams of the Soul, Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg," (2005) and "Peter Schlemiel, The Man Who Sold His Shadow," by Adelbert von Chamisso (1993).
A recipient of the Beard's Fund Short Story Award, Fulbright and Thomas J. Watson Foundation fellowships, Peter Wortsman is the author of "A Modern Way To Die: small stories and microtales" (1991). His translations from the German include "Telegrams of the Soul, Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg," (2005) and "Peter Schlemiel, The Man Who Sold His Shadow," by Adelbert von Chamisso (1993).
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