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Heinrich Heine in Clavigo, and we compare with them the cold, selfish, and overbearing character of the author's self. With warnings like these, we are by no means incHned to stand up for Heine's sincerity. Perhaps he was as little sincere as his fellows, whose professional cant is not the less admired for being known as such." " Eraser's Magazine joined other pubhcations of the Eighteen-Fifties in toning down its dishke of Heine, the political satirist, and in stressing the achievements of Heine, the poet. In an article on "Young Germany," which appeared in January, 1854, it voiced satisfaction that this group, of which Heine was the head, had lost its political influence since the collapse of the Revolution of 1848. Heine alone was deemed worthy of respect because, in the epilogue to Romancero, he had the manly courage to admit his errors. In politics, he must be classed as a rebelhous Titan, heaving mountains, destroying much, without building up anything high, solid, or enduring. In poetry, on the other hand, he remained ever resplendent and his visions were unmarred by his bodily torture. Romancero, composed when he was physically dead to all sensation and hopeless of recovery, furnished additional proof of his great genius: "The mind of the man, always lively, en- [54]

Martyr of Montmartre ergetic, fresh for the conflict, seems, however, to have kindled into even greater clearness and force under this awful infliction. His constant flashing satire, exquisitely lyric faculty, wonderful humor, and subtle genius are revived with tenfold vigor, and glow with unquenchable brilliancy, and he is yet more than a match for them who may have the ill-fortune to come across him." ^^ Heine's long illness and the fortitude with which he bore his misfortunes won him much sympathy in England. If the Travel Sketches and the political tracts of young Heine outraged English pubhc opinion, Romancero and the Confessions of the dying Heine effected a lasting reconciliation. The Martyr of Montmartre spoke to the hearts of readers who had failed to react to the splenetic pamphleteer. In January, 1855, a year before his death, the Westminster Review eulogized him as follows: "Poor Heine! these latest touches of his pen will excite the admiration of every reader of French and German, wherever in the habitable globe these languages are studied, while the writer, with pale countenance and eyes half-closed with pain, lays a head weary with a long fife-battle on the pillow of sickness, in the Rue d'Amsterdam, where it has now settled for the last fiveyears. And such is Fame! Yet the Titan [S5]

Martyr of Montmartre<br />

ergetic, fresh for the conflict, seems, however, to<br />

have kindled into even greater clearness and force<br />

under this awful infliction. His constant flashing<br />

satire, exquisitely lyric faculty, wonderful humor,<br />

and subtle genius are revived with tenfold vigor,<br />

and glow with unquenchable brilliancy, and he is<br />

yet more than a match for them who may have the<br />

ill-fortune to come across him." ^^<br />

Heine's long illness and the fortitude with which<br />

he bore his misfortunes won him much sympathy in<br />

England. If the Travel Sketches and the political<br />

tracts of young Heine outraged English pubhc opinion,<br />

Romancero and the Confessions of the dying<br />

Heine effected a lasting reconciliation. The Martyr<br />

of Montmartre spoke to the hearts of readers who<br />

had failed to react to the splenetic pamphleteer. In<br />

January, 1855, a year before his death, the Westminster<br />

Review eulogized him as follows: "Poor<br />

Heine! these latest touches of his pen will excite the<br />

admiration of every reader of French and German,<br />

wherever in the habitable globe these languages are<br />

studied, while the writer, with pale countenance<br />

and eyes half-closed with pain, lays a head weary<br />

with a long fife-battle on the pillow of sickness, in<br />

the Rue d'Amsterdam, where it has now settled for<br />

the last fiveyears. And such is Fame! Yet the Titan<br />

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