HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Blackguard and Apostate
bliss, his ideas were undoubtedly stimulating and
his prose and verse were of great significance.
About a week after the appearance of the review
in the Athenaeum, Heine's articles on the state of
German literature of his day began to be published
in the Parisian journal V Europe litter aire.
The editor of the Athenaeum must have been favorably
impressed by the brilHant analyses and by
the inexhaustible wit of the first contributions, for
he invited Heine to present to English readers a
similar survey of contemporary German literature.
The Athenaeum sought to increase its circulation
by a promise of Heine as its authority on Central
Europe and Sainte-Beuve as its authority on France.
It welcomed a report that Sarah Austin, who had
written eloquently about the Weimar circle and
who had personal contact with Heine after his arrival
in France, intended to make him better known
to the British public than could be done within the
limited space of reviews. It called upon the French
essayist Edgar Quinet to prepare a paper on Heine
that was to serve as an introduction to the latter's
own articles. In the final issue of 1833, it reported
to its readers that the appearance of Heine's articles
had been delayed because the writer had enlarged
his views as he proceeded to examine and to con-
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