Walther von der Vogelweide

"The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance."

"He is equally great whether his theme be religion, patriotism, or love. As a political poet he is one of the greatest of all time."

"He has no equal in medieval German lyric poetry and perhaps not even in European lyric poetry of the Middle Ages."

"For five hundred years after Walther's death – until Goethe – no German lyric poet was his equal."

"He was known to his countrymen as the Nightingale, but his own sweet-sounding name of Bird's-meadow suggests even more directly the pure, true, flute-like strain which he poured into Europe’s choir of…"

"Selected poems translated by Tim Chilcott"

"Selected poems translated by Graeme Dunphy"

"The greatest of the Minnesinger, all of whom he surpasses both in the range and in the humanity of his poetry."