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In this volume, Siegfried Unseld presents his favorite poems by Hermann Hesse, specifically those verses that he mentions in the afterword as having accompanied him throughout his life. Alongside the most beautiful nature poems and Hesse's timeless lyrical reflections (happiness, books, language, contemplation, stages), his selection also includes poems about the genre most closely related to lyricism: music (organ playing, flute playing). Hesse's poems fulfill what he said about the impulse to write them: "All lyric is a mirror of the world in the isolated self, a response of the self to the world, a lament, contemplation, and play of a fully conscious solitude." Reproductions of the manuscripts and color reproductions of the poet's watercolors make this volume a bibliophilic treasure. "Anyone who has to make such a selection would prefer different poems, but at the same time knows.".