Thursday, May 21, 2009

Heinrich Heine

Heine, with a far profounder sense of the mystic and romantic charm of the Midd1e Age than Gorres, or Brentano, or Arnim, Heine the chief romantic poet of Germany, is yet also much more than a romantic poet; he is a great modern poet, he is not conquered by the Middle Age, he has a talisman by which he can feel,--along with but above the power of the fascinating 1liddle Age itself,--the power of modern ideas. --Matthew Arnold, Heinrich Heine, Essays: Literary and Critical (1906), p. 113, Internet Archive


Recommended reading:
by Heinrich Heine at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

...his position in the English-speaking world remains somewhat obscure. Here Heine is known more for his poetry than his prose, which tends to be relegated to semi-academic editions of his selected writings. This is a shame, but all the more reason why we should be grateful for a new layman's edition of Heine's witty Travel Pictures, translated by Peter Wortsman. It's a work that remains strikingly fresh in style and tone. --James Guida, Heinrich Heine's 'Travel Pictures': The Portrait behind Them, More Intelligent Life, August 15, 2008 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

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