Excerpt from Eine's Book of Songs F all Heine's works, the Book of Songs is by far the most popular. It contains some of his most exquisite songs and lyrical poems, and some of the best examples of his power of dealing with a dramatic incident in ballad form as well as many things much less happy in taste, feeling, and even in execution, which serve as foils to his more perfect work. Yet even in the worst pieces in this volume he usually remains a master of his craft as a lyrical poet. His verses go trippingly on the tongue, except when, as in some of the satirical Sonnets, he is wilfully uncouth, and seems with a cynical enjoyment to heap together all the most cacophonous sounds the German language can produce and when, as in some of the North Sea poems, the sentiment becomes banal, and the unrhymed lyrical metres approach perilously near ungainly prose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.