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Poems of Heinrich Heine (Classic Reprint)
Poems of Heinrich Heine - Classic Reprint Author:Heinrich Heine In his " Life of Heinrich Heine " (one of the hasty but surprisingly excellent pot-boilers written before his alter ego, Fiona MacLeod, became a cult), William Sharp points out what he considers Heine's " fundamental and puzzling complexities." — Among other and less significant things, he recognizes him as a romanticist and the chief foe of Roma... more »nticism; a true poet and a born journalist; an historian without method, a philosopher without a real philosophy; a free liver and yet loyal to his wife and reverent of his mother; the most tender of Teutonic poets and the most brutally cynical; a German, yet the bitterest scourge of Germany; an intense admirer of Sterne, a lover of Shakespeare, a com-mender of the poets of England, and a hater of the nation and everything English; a cynic who laughed at sentiment, and a sentimentalist in spite of all things -impatient and irritable in health, of heroic endurance in ills more terrible than ever fell to the lot of a poet. . . .
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