Excerpt from Heine's Poems: Selected and Edited With Introduction and Notes Of Heine's life which called forth the lyric expression Of his loves, friendships, hatreds, political ideals, and especially of that scorn which he felt for all shams and wrongs. It ex plains his attitude toward religion, and aims to give a clear conception of the poet's many-sided character. A study of Heine's sources in succinct form and a discussion Of Heine in Music close the Introduction. 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.