Heinrich Heine was known for his caustic and humorous observations on contemporary trends, in philosophy, politics, and the arts. We present here three prose, and numerous poetry translations. We have concentrated our efforts on some of Heine's more polemical poems, of which some are rarely translated.

For a list of German titles, click here.


Prose

Excerpts from Heine's essays

Heine compares Schiller to Goethe,
and Plato to Aristotle

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Heine's Portrait of Paganini

From "Florentine Nights"

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Heine's Epitaph

"It will be a lovely day..." from Reisebilder

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Our most ambitious translation project:
an epic poem by Heine





Assorted poetry

Young Tom-Cat Club for Poetry-Music

Heine makes known his views on Berlioz, Liszt,
and the "Music of the Future"

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Mimi

The lady cats are musical, too

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Song of Songs

An appreciation of the feminine form

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The White Elephant

What to get the man who has everything?

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When Youthful Hearts are Breaking

(with an original song setting by the Davidsbündler)

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The Gods of Greece

They've seen better days

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Ascension

A trip to Heaven  

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Rhampsenit

If you can't beat 'em...  

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On Teleology

God has His reasons

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On Lazarus 1

Some questions remain  

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Belshazzar

A word to the wise

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The Electoral Asses

A few scholarly observations on politics and ethnicity  

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The World Turned Upside Down

Further observations on politics  

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Doctrine

Hegel's philosophy explained  

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The Slave Ship

One of Heine's darkest satires  

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My Dear, Lay Your Hand Here

What's all that racket in my breast?

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O Death, that is the Cooling Night

On the paradox of mortality;
text for the famous Lied by Brahms

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