“Ich grolle nicht” by Heinrich Heine

The poet Heinrich Heine (1831) by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (Hamburger Kunsthalle/Wikimedia Commons)

Amanda Holmes reads Heinrich Heine’s poem “Ich grolle nicht,” translated from the German by Richard Stokes. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a columnist and poetry editor for the Washington Independent Review of Books.