Homepage
Login
Profile
BookClubs
dmBox
Read Ebook: The Mentor: The Revolution Vol. 1 Num. 43 Serial No. 43 The Story of America in Pictures by Hart Albert Bushnell
Font size:
Background color:
Text color:
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page
Ebook has 14 lines and 2377 words, and 1 pages
PAGE
REISEBILDER 1
LONDON 47
WELLINGTON 52
THE LIBERATION 57
JAN STEEN 65
THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL 68
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY 142
FLORENTINE NIGHTS 179
CONFESSIONS 290
HEINE.
Heine gathers up and focuses for us in one vivid point all those influences of his own time which are the forces of to-day. He appears before us, to put it in his own way, as a youthful and militant Knight of the Holy Ghost, tilting against the spectres of the past and liberating the imprisoned energies of the human spirit. His interest from this point of view lies, largely, apart from his interest as a supreme lyric poet, the brother of Catullus and Villon and Burns; we here approach him on his prosaic--his relatively prosaic--side.
One hemisphere of Heine's brain was Greek, the other Hebrew. He was born when the genius of Goethe was at its height; his mother had absorbed the frank earthliness, the sane and massive Paganism, of the Roman elegies, and Heine's ideals in all things, whether he would or not, were always Hellenic--using that word in the large sense in which Heine himself used it--even while he was the first in rank and the last in time of the Romantic poets of Germany. He sought, even consciously, to mould the modern emotional spirit into classic forms. He wrought his art simply and lucidly, the aspirations that pervade it are everywhere sensuous, and yet it recalls oftener the turbulent temper of Catullus than any serener ancient spirit.
With his uncle's help he studied law at Bonn, G?ttingen and Berlin. At Berlin he fell under the dominant influence of Hegel, the vanquisher of the romantic school of which Schelling was the philosophic representative. Heine afterwards referred to this period as that in which he "herded swine with the Hegelians;" it is certain that Hegel exerted great and permanent influence over him. At Berlin, in 1821, appeared his first volume of poems, and then he began to take his true place.
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page