HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Heinrich Heine
ficial duties were not too strenuous, they found
time to collaborate on a long poetic version of the
Tannhauser legend, which had recently been popularized
on the Continent by Heine and Wagner.
It was then also that Julian Fane occupied his
many leisure hours with translations from Heine.
These were printed for private circulation in 1854
in Vienna and were favorably reviewed by Lord
Houghton in the Edinburgh Review of July, 1856.
Julian Fane also planned a critical biography of
Heine. Though an early death prevented the completion
of this biography, an insight into Fane's
portrait of his hero can be obtained from an article
which he contributed to the Saturday Review
in November, 1855.
The article was entitled "Heinrich Heine, Poet
and Humorist." It presented the hero as the
founder of a new school of German letters. It recommended
the Travel Sketches not as a descriptive
book of travels but as a picture of the times, as a
mirror of the hopes and fears which agitated the
minds of men, as an expression of the conflict of
opinions, religious, moral, and political, which convulsed
society, as a successful assault upon the
strongholds of antiquated reactionary ideas, as a
contemptuous satire upon the follies, unjustified
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