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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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Martyr of Montmartre<br />

ergetic, fresh for the conflict, seems, however, to<br />

have kindled into even greater clearness and force<br />

under this awful infliction. His constant flashing<br />

satire, exquisitely lyric faculty, wonderful humor,<br />

and subtle genius are revived with tenfold vigor,<br />

and glow with unquenchable brilliancy, and he is<br />

yet more than a match for them who may have the<br />

ill-fortune to come across him." ^^<br />

Heine's long illness and the fortitude with which<br />

he bore his misfortunes won him much sympathy in<br />

England. If the Travel Sketches and the political<br />

tracts of young Heine outraged English pubhc opinion,<br />

Romancero and the Confessions of the dying<br />

Heine effected a lasting reconciliation. The Martyr<br />

of Montmartre spoke to the hearts of readers who<br />

had failed to react to the splenetic pamphleteer. In<br />

January, 1855, a year before his death, the Westminster<br />

Review eulogized him as follows: "Poor<br />

Heine! these latest touches of his pen will excite the<br />

admiration of every reader of French and German,<br />

wherever in the habitable globe these languages are<br />

studied, while the writer, with pale countenance<br />

and eyes half-closed with pain, lays a head weary<br />

with a long fife-battle on the pillow of sickness, in<br />

the Rue d'Amsterdam, where it has now settled for<br />

the last fiveyears. And such is Fame! Yet the Titan<br />

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