HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Heinrich Heine
under the pseudonym of "Stratheir," Edgar Alfred
Bowring, John Stores Smith, who used the pseudonym
of "John Ackerlos," Richard Garnett, Franklin
Johnson, James Thomson, Heinrich Herz, John
Snodgrass, Alexander Macmillan, Alfred Baskerville,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Juhan Fane,
Mary Howitt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Emily Pfeiffer, Charles Stuart Calverley, Frank
Siller, Franciska Ruge, Lord Houghton, Lord Lytton,
E. B. Shuldham.
Since this edition of 1887, numerous other translators
have tried to render Heine and the end of
such efforts is not in sight. English critics, familiar
with the original, were rarely satisfied with Heine
in the new tongue. Their resentment at some versions
often found vent in violent outbursts. Thus,
Robert Buchanan attacked Sir Theodore Martin
for stripping the German poet of impishness and
devilishness and clothing him with too much respectability.
Heine could not be laced in a Court
suit. An interpreter who would do justice to him
must possess something of his nature — free, wild,
wicked, overbold. "Heine himself carried his wickedness
to the extent of hating England and Enghshmen
with all his heart. His cup of hate would have
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