HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

CHAPTER II
MARTYR OF MONTMARTRE
THE years after the ascent of Queen Victoria
to the throne of England witnessed a constant
increase in Heine's influence upon English thought
and English letters. The vituperation heaped upon
him by the pre-Victorian publicists continued to
some extent throughout the succeeding decades,
but there was mingled with all the bitter reproaches
about his malign influence a definite admiration for
his talent as a poet and his brilliance as a wit.
There were three distinct avenues through which
Heine's influence made itself felt. In the first place,
there were the English reviews and English translations,
which increased in number and in depth
of insight from year to year. In the second place,
there were Englishmen, such as George Meredith
and Julian Fane, who studied or travelled in Germany
at a time when Heine's literary star was in
the ascendancy and his songs were captivating the
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