His early works, like the plays William Ratcliff and Almansor, were mostly failures, and he switched to prose for works like Florentine Nights and the unfinished Rabbi of Bacharach.  In another of his works, this man wrote about a dancing bear who escapes and must be hunted down.  He criticized a co
His early works, like the plays William Ratcliff and Almansor, were mostly failures, and he switched to prose for works like Florentine Nights and the unfinished Rabbi of Bacharach.  In another of his works, this man wrote about a dancing bear who escapes and must be hunted down.  He criticized a contemporary in Ludwig Borne, and works like the Letters from Berlin were collected in the four-volume Pictures of Travel. Returning to the mock epic form in a work translated by Engels, Germany: A Winter's Tale, his most famous collection includes the poems "Nordsee" and "Lyric Intermezzo."  FTP, name this author of the poetry collections Romanzero and Book of Songs, a German writer perhaps best known for a poem often set to music, "The Lorelei."
His early works, like the plays William Ratcliff and Almansor, were mostly failures, and he switched to prose for works like Florentine Nights and the unfinished Rabbi of Bacharach.  
Heinrich Heine