Download or read book Great German Poems in English Translation written by Leon Malinofsky and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of fresh, new translations of classic German poems, including sheet music for some set to music by Schubert. Goethe, Heine, Novalis, Hebbel. Translations keep the same meter, rhyme, and rhythm, and even the same number of syllables, with the correct scansion, per line. This is the first book of translations to give accurate impressions of the poems as the authors intended from a standpoint not only of meaning but also of their rhythmic rhetoric. This is a book for native speakers of English who want to discover more great poems.