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Heinrich Heine, “Blackguard” and “Apostate” a Study of the Earliest English Attitude Towards Him

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Sol Liptzin*
Affiliation:
City College, New York

Extract

For a century and more Heinrich Heine has had an international vogue unsurpassed by that of any other German poet, unless Goethe. This well-known fact has been established beyond doubt in a series of studies on Heine in America, Heine in France, Heine in Holland, Heine in Rumania, Heine in Scandinavia. Strangely enough, however, Heine's influence in two countries that perhaps felt most strongly the impress of his literary personality has hitherto not been fully explored by scholars. The one country is his own native land, where he was constantly felt as a living, though not necessarily beneficial, force and where his work gave rise to unceasing controversies. The other realm is England.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , March 1943 , pp. 170 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1943

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4 Athenaeum, February 23, 1833, p. 115.

5 Athenaeum, February 15, 1834, p. 127.

6 Idem, p. 123.

7 Foreign Quarterly Review, x (August, 1832), 154.

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10 Quarterly Review, liii (December, 1834), 216.

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13 Foreign Quarterly Review, xviii (January, 1837), 17.

14 Foreign Quarterly Review, xix (July, 1837), 295.

15 D. A. Wilson, Carlyle till Marriage (London, 1923), p. 404.

16 D. A. Wilson and D. W. MacArthur, Carlyle in Old Age (London, 1934), p. 23.

17 Ibid., p. 218.

18 Ibid., p. 347.

19 William Black, With the Eyes of Youth and Other Sketches (London, 1903), p. 257.

20 Anna Jacobson, Charles Kingsleys Beziehungen zu Deutschland (Heidelberg, 1917), p. 73.