Romanzero by Heinrich Heine

"Romanzero" by Heinrich Heine is a poetry collection published in 1851. Written during Heine's final years while confined to his "mattress grave" in Paris, this work marks a departure from his earlier romantic verse. The collection divides into three sections: historical tales spanning ancient Egypt to Aztec gods, lamentations on illness and death, and Hebrew melodies exploring Jewish themes. Through irony and pointed critique, Heine exposes social injustices and challenges political, religious, and literary conventions—provocations that led to immediate bans in Austria and Prussia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856
Title Romanzero
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanzero
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject German poetry -- 19th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 5607
Release Date
Last Update Dec 29, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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