HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Citizen of the World
larly, the comprehensive selection of Heine's prose
and poetry which was prepared for English and
American readers and which left press on the eve
of 1949 began with an essay on the poet under the
title Humanity's Soldier and concluded with a collection
of extracts entitled Citizen of the World.^
Frederic Ewen, the author of the essay, viewed
Heine as the champion of the hfe-aflSrming progressive
forces, as a realist who never separated the
word from the deed and the deed from its social
consequences, as a hater of war and economic privilege,
as a modern whose eyes pierced the future
and who foresaw a great confederation of peoples
— the Holy Alhance of Nations, as a true Citizen
of the World who wished to bring Germany into
the mainstream of European history and culture.
That Heine did not succeed in this last task was the
tragedy of Germany and of the world. Some day,
however, the world may achieve complete justice.
Then the common man, who read Heine and who
kept his memory alive for generations, will honor
in him not only the poet of love but also the bard
of freedom, the far-seeing social thinker, the good
soldier in the wars of human liberation.
In 1951, Ludwig Marcuse adapted his biography
of Heine for post-War readers. From his new
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