One of Germanys most illustrious poets Heinrich Heine is also celebrated forhis idiosyncratic and vibrant prose. Heines lyrical humorous and revealingvision in ... » 

One of Germanys most illustrious poets Heinrich Heine is also celebrated forhis idiosyncratic and vibrant prose. Heines lyrical humorous and revealingvision in these four accounts of his voyages in Italy and Germany raisesTravel Pictures into the transcendent realm of great journey literature. Overone hundred poems pepper the text. Heinrich Heine 17971856 was one of themost significant German Romantic poets. Many of his poems were set to music bySchubert Mendelssohn and Brahms. Peter Wortsman is an author and translator.His translations from the German include work by Robert Musil Peter Altenbergand Adelbert von Chamisso. «