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To all, whether they read German or not, this volume brings a new and interesting point of view. Mr. Untermeyer has got at the heart of Heine's puzzling complexities. He shows him, not a German, nor a "joyous Hellene," as Heine called himself, but a Jew with all the Jewish sensitiveness, bitterness, irony, and voluptuous love of the color and flavor of life.

Those who know the Buch der Lieder and who love the Schumann and Franz music for Heine's lyrics will delight in the delicacy and exactness of the translation and the blending of Mr. Untermeyer's words with the music.

Those who have not before been able to read Heine will feel that they have discovered a new poet.

Poems full of intense love of the life of the senses, rebellious over social wrongs, and all vigorous with a love of living.

"Mr. Untermeyer is conspicuous for the success with which he fuses lyric beauty and the modern spirit of poetry. He has achieved genuine poetry, but his work is more than an achievement, it is a promise." —Boston Transcript.

Parodies of such modern Parnassians as Masefield, Frost, Masters, etc.

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