HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories
HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories
Heinrich Heine through five editions between 1856 and 1866, an unmistakable proof of Heine's vogue in this mid- Victorian decade. The vogue extended even to Heine's bitterest opponents, the theologians on both sides of the Atlantic. These too were becoming reconciled to him, although they felt impelled to moralize about his final suffering as just compensation for an unholy hfe. The magazine Ecclesiastic and Theologian devoted in 1859 eight pages to the Julian of poetry and his rare mixture of beauty and moral poison.'' Theodore Parker, the Boston divine, wrote in a letter dated September 21, 1857: "Heine has a deal of the Devil in him, mixed with a deal of genius. Nobody could write so well as he — surely none since Goethe; that Hebrew nature has a world of sensuous and devotional emotion in it, and immense power of language also. But his genius is lyric, not dramatic, not epic; no muse rises so high as the Hebrew, but it cannot keep long on the wing. The Psalms and Prophets of the Old Testament teach us this; Oriental sensuousness attained their finest expression in the Song of Solomon and in Heine's Lieder." ^ Heine's death on February 17, 1856, evoked much comment throughout Europe and was noted [66]
Continuator of Goethe by many Englishmen. Robert Lytton, who was then attache to the Enghsh Embassy at Paris, wrote to his father. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in a letter of March 10, that with the death of Heine a great light had gone out.^ The Illustrated London Neivs of March 8, wrote that Heine's death left a vacancy in the world of Continental literature.^ Blackwood's Magazine referred to him in October as the great German poet, the jest of whose existence had just ended at Paris.® It found his later writings unsurpassed in grim sarcasm and his earlier poems exquisitely pathetic, despite a slight halfconscious tinge of the ludicrous with which they were colored. The Saturday Review of the following January 17 expressed the wish that someone would write for the English pubhc a biography of Heine, somewhat on the plan of Carlyle's Life of Schiller.'' Every volume of translations furnished reviewers with an opportunity to voice their admiration of the German poet and their dissatisfaction with his English versifiers. The Saturday Review of April 26, 1856 contrasted the heaviness of the version by John E. Walhs with the buoyancy of the original German. It remarked that rhythm and rhyme were no fetters to Heine but rather wings [67]
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Continuator of Goethe<br />
by many Englishmen. Robert Lytton, who was<br />
then attache to the Enghsh Embassy at Paris, wrote<br />
to his father. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in a letter<br />
of March 10, that with the death of Heine a<br />
great light had gone out.^ The Illustrated London<br />
Neivs of March 8, wrote that Heine's death left a<br />
vacancy in the world of Continental literature.^<br />
Blackwood's Magazine referred to him in October<br />
as the great German poet, the jest of whose existence<br />
had just ended at Paris.® It found his later<br />
writings unsurpassed in grim sarcasm and his earlier<br />
poems exquisitely pathetic, despite a slight halfconscious<br />
tinge of the ludicrous with which they<br />
were colored. The Saturday Review of the following<br />
January 17 expressed the wish that someone<br />
would write for the English pubhc a biography of<br />
Heine, somewhat on the plan of Carlyle's Life of<br />
Schiller.''<br />
Every volume of translations furnished reviewers<br />
with an opportunity to voice their admiration<br />
of the German poet and their dissatisfaction with<br />
his English versifiers. The Saturday Review of<br />
April 26, 1856 contrasted the heaviness of the version<br />
by John E. Walhs with the buoyancy of<br />
the original German. It remarked that rhythm and<br />
rhyme were no fetters to Heine but rather wings<br />
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