HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Martyr of Montmartre
hearts of his countrymen. In the third place, there
were Englishmen, such as Colonel John Mitchell
and Richard Monckton Milnes, later known as
Lord Houghton, who stayed in France and who
came in contact with the exiled poet and his circle
of Parisian admirers.
To begin with the English reviews, these were
more numerous in the Eighteen-Forties than in the
Eighteen-Thirties and their tone was less hostile.
Thus, the Foreign Quarterly Review, which in
1835 almost exhausted its vocabulary of invectives
in assailing the German poet, wrote of him with
greater tolerance in its issue of July, 1845. It referred
to him as "the seditious, profane, immoral,
witty, genial, and graceful Heine." ^ It called him
a true poet of the Epicurean school, even though
he scandalized many persons by assuming the falsehood
and meanness of kings, national sentiments,
and respectable traditions. Beneath his laughter at
everything that had a serious pomposity, it sensed
a tenderness of feeling, which gave relief to his
destructive humor.
The Dublin University Magazine in 1846 conferred
on Heine the title of the Teutonic Voltaire.
It reprinted his verses on Barbarossa as typical of
his amusing satire on both of the extreme political
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