HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Continuator of Goethe
Fane's rendering of fifty-seven lyrics was printed
in 1854, but only for private circulation. In the
following year, however, selections from Heine's
poetry were available in a volume by John Stores
Smith. In 1856 the entire Book of Songs was englished
by John E. Wallis. Two years later, in 1858,
Edgar Alfred Bowring met the increasing demand
of the reading public by translating the Complete
Poems of Heine in original metres. This edition was
soon exhausted and in 1861 it was reproduced in
Bohn's Standard Library, where it attained a very
large circulation. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who
had never risked translating from the German, although
she was successful in translating from
other languages, attempted a rendering of six Heine
poems in 1860 during her sojourn in Rome. They
were the last translations before her death. English
readers could also avail themselves of the version
by the American, Charles Godfrey Leland, a popular
balladist of the Civil War period, who was better
known under his pseudonym Hans Breitman.
His version was begun while Heine was still alive
and was continued for almost four decades. In 1893
Leland completed the eighth or final volume of
Heine's Collected Works. Meanwhile, the first volume,
containing the Travel Sketches, had gone
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