HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Heinrich Heine
tion turned about politics, and especially EngHsh
politics. Heine expressed many bitter aversions.
He never laid aside his habit of critical observation
and he was especially keen in discovering the ridiculous
aspect of any situation. "Heine looks upon
himself as he does upon all men — as actors, some
playing farce, others comedy, and few tragedy; but
all actors."
Apparently the Englishman was no less observant
than the German, for his comments encompassed
not only Heine, the poet, the dramatist,
the sketcher of nature, the philosopher most akin
to Zeno, but also Heine, the lover and the humanitarian.
Concerning Heine's boundless affection for
the fair sex, there was the following remark: "His
imagination seems inexhaustible when he revels in
the delight of talking or writing about them. But
it is not their minds, but their hearts; not their intellects,
but their passions; not their social and domestic,
but their enthusiastic and ardent characteristics
he admires; and hence when in his writings
he describes women in their family spheres and
moral circles of quiet home enjoyment, he dips his
pen in gall, and satirizes them most unkindly."
Concerning the more humane side of Heine's
character, there was the following notation: "And
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