HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Heinrich Heine
by a formal acknowledgment that these famed Ii
ary masters had peered into the volume. Small w
der, therefore, that England, which had not
reconciled itself to Byron and Shelley and wl
had not yet discovered Keats, paid no attentio]
the young German lyricist.
With the appearance of Heine's Travel Sketi
from 1826 on, however, the indifference of reai
and critics gave way to curiosity about the w
and irreverent writer. The bold mixture of p]
and verse, poHtics and literature, humor and ir
startled German critics. Though they felt obh
to deprecate his attacks upon rehgion and mora
and to censure his radical anti-government vie
these critics could no longer ignore him. When
authorities of the principal German states took
step of proscribing his sketches, he immediately
came in the eyes of many the brave warrior of
pen and the noble champion of liberalism.
The earliest English reference to Heine refle(
this mixed reception accorded the young aut
in his own native land and included a prophec)
his coming greatness. The Foreign Quarterly
view of February, 1828, commented on the ]
two volumes of the Travel Sketches, the only c
which had appeared, in the following mam
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