The peculiar place of Schumann as a songwriter is indicated by his being called the musical exponent of Heine, who seems to be the other half of his soul.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
He might have cried, in the words of the songwriter, "I thank thee, my coat!"
"Eve and David"
Honore de Balzac
His "Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver" are superior to those of either Nicoll or the Bethunes, the little love-songs in the volume reminding us of Burns's best manner, and the two languages in which he writes being better amalgamated, as it seems to us, than in any Scotch songwriter.
"Literary and General Lectures and Essays"
Charles Kingsley