HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Introduction
pre-Victorian days to its present configuration, is
markedly different from the German legend and
sheds new light both upon Heine and upon the
English-speaking world which has assimilated him
into its cultural pattern.
Our Heine, citizen of the world, bears the contours
of our day, contours that are no less valid or
fascinating than those etched by our forebears in
the many decades since he first appeared upon the
literary horizon. Our Heine, as reshaped by us, may
be exerting a significant influence upon the thinking
and dreaming of the Occident in the years to
come, even as the Heine of our fathers has influenced
us in our eventful years. It is, therefore, of
value to us to know that ever changing legend of
Heinrich Heine.
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