Narrative poem · 1847

Atta Troll

A Summer Night's Dream

by Heinrich Heine

Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908)

Heine's mock-heroic satire in twenty-seven cantos, written in 1841 and published in 1847: a dancing bear escapes from his master at Cauterets in the Pyrenees, and the pursuit becomes a burlesque of the political poets and doctrinaire radicals of the day.

Contents · 27 parts

• Caput I84 lines
• Caput II56 lines
• Caput III36 lines
• Caput IV96 lines
• Caput Vabout 110 lines
• Caput VI68 lines
• Caput VII48 lines
• Caput VIII80 lines
• Caput IX32 lines
• Caput X76 lines
• Caput XI80 lines
• Caput XIIabout 110 lines
• Caput XIII48 lines
• Caput XIV68 lines
• Caput XV60 lines
• Caput XVI56 lines
• Caput XVII88 lines
• Caput XVIIIabout 100 lines
• Caput XIXabout 140 lines
• Caput XXabout 120 lines
• Caput XXIabout 140 lines
• Caput XXIIabout 150 lines
• Caput XXIIIabout 120 lines
• Caput XXIV48 lines
• Caput XXV72 lines
• Caput XXVI84 lines
• Caput XXVII64 lines

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