READING HEINRICH HEINE

128 Reading Heinrich Heine
aspirations, no less than Heine’s ‘Lorelei’, have been overtaken by ‘Youth
Movement hordes and their dreadful successors’ – the Nazis. Survivals are
rare, but not unheard of: ‘At times, however, language itself really speaks
from George, as if for the last time, in a way that others have only feigned’. 26
On equally rare occasions for George and Borchardt the same could be said
for Heine too.