Frauen-Liebe und Leben

…example, the cycle of poems Frauen-Liebe und Leben (“Woman’s Love and Life”), set to music by Robert Schumann—depicted simple emotions with a sentimental naïveté common to German Romantic verse of the period. His narrative ballads and poems, such as “Vergeltung” (“Reward”) and “Salas y Gomez,” sometimes inclined to bizarre and…