HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Continuator of Goethe
by many Englishmen. Robert Lytton, who was
then attache to the Enghsh Embassy at Paris, wrote
to his father. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in a letter
of March 10, that with the death of Heine a
great light had gone out.^ The Illustrated London
Neivs of March 8, wrote that Heine's death left a
vacancy in the world of Continental literature.^
Blackwood's Magazine referred to him in October
as the great German poet, the jest of whose existence
had just ended at Paris.® It found his later
writings unsurpassed in grim sarcasm and his earlier
poems exquisitely pathetic, despite a slight halfconscious
tinge of the ludicrous with which they
were colored. The Saturday Review of the following
January 17 expressed the wish that someone
would write for the English pubhc a biography of
Heine, somewhat on the plan of Carlyle's Life of
Schiller.''
Every volume of translations furnished reviewers
with an opportunity to voice their admiration
of the German poet and their dissatisfaction with
his English versifiers. The Saturday Review of
April 26, 1856 contrasted the heaviness of the version
by John E. Walhs with the buoyancy of
the original German. It remarked that rhythm and
rhyme were no fetters to Heine but rather wings
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