HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Heinrich Heine
in Clavigo, and we compare with them the cold,
selfish, and overbearing character of the author's
self. With warnings like these, we are by no means
incHned to stand up for Heine's sincerity. Perhaps
he was as little sincere as his fellows, whose professional
cant is not the less admired for being known
as such." "
Eraser's Magazine joined other pubhcations of
the Eighteen-Fifties in toning down its dishke of
Heine, the political satirist, and in stressing the
achievements of Heine, the poet. In an article on
"Young Germany," which appeared in January,
1854, it voiced satisfaction that this group, of which
Heine was the head, had lost its political influence
since the collapse of the Revolution of 1848. Heine
alone was deemed worthy of respect because, in the
epilogue to Romancero, he had the manly courage
to admit his errors. In politics, he must be classed as
a rebelhous Titan, heaving mountains, destroying
much, without building up anything high, solid, or
enduring. In poetry, on the other hand, he remained
ever resplendent and his visions were unmarred by
his bodily torture. Romancero, composed when he
was physically dead to all sensation and hopeless of
recovery, furnished additional proof of his great
genius: "The mind of the man, always lively, en-
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