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Moonlight, longing, old legends—and then a joke that breaks the spell.
In The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine, a German poet turns travel, literature, religion and politics into lively prose. His Travel Pictures offers something other than a guidebook: romantic feeling meets sharp wit. Heine draws you into a lovely mood, then punctures it with a joke.
Paris gives Heine another field of observation. In French Affairs and Lutetia, he follows political quarrels alongside music, painting and theatre. His essays introduce French readers to German thought and German readers to French life. Throughout these pieces, feeling and political argument share the page with a mocking eye for censors.
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- Travel beyond the guidebook Explore Travel Pictures, the sketches that bring Heine a wide readership through his distinctive prose.
- Romance meets a joke Watch moonlight and longing give way to irony that unsettles the mood he creates.
- German ideas cross borders Follow essays that bring German religion, philosophy and literature before French readers.
- Paris under a sharp eye Meet a correspondent alert to party quarrels, new music, painting and the theatre.
- The poet beyond poems Discover how Heine brings wit, feeling and political argument together outside his lyric verse.
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For lovers of witty essays, travel sketches and literary criticism who enjoy an author with a sharp tongue, and for anyone curious about Germany, France and the ideas that shaped the nineteenth century.
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- A Poet Shaped by Two Worlds
- A Child Learns History from a Drum
- Laughter Covers Grief in Tragic Times
- London Is a Stone Forest of Crowds
- Freedom Is a New Religion
- How Medieval Dreams Fed German Romanticism
- Gods, Ghosts and Poets of the Past
- Germany's Ideas, Florentine Fantasies and Final Confessions
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A drum-beating boyhood under Napoleon leads to a Paris sickroom where a witty exile writes his confessions.
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Imagine a boy in Düsseldorf who learns the French Revolution from a drummer's sticks. That boy grows into Heinrich Heine, the German poet who spent his last twenty-five years in Paris and died there in 1856.
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A Poet Shaped by Two Worlds
The critic Havelock Ellis says Heine had one Greek half and one Hebrew half, and that the two never stopped arguing. Heine loved beauty, the senses and the sunlit gods of Greece. Yet he also carried the stern, freedom-loving spirit of the Bible.
He was born in Düsseldorf, then under French rule, probably in December 1799. He studied law, was baptised in hope of a post, regretted it at once, and found no post. The Travel Pictures made him famous in 1826, and the censors banned the second volume.
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What is The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine about?
It includes travel sketches, essays on German literature and religion, a story from Florentine Nights, and his late Confessions, all marked by wit and a deep love of freedom.
Who is Monsieur Le Grand in Heine's Book Le Grand?
He is the French drummer billeted in Heine's childhood home in Düsseldorf. He teaches the boy French and history through drumming, and the boy later meets him again, broken, after the Russian campaign.
What does Heine mean by the Romantic School?
He means the German movement that revived medieval Christian poetry, led by the Schlegel brothers. He explains it, mocks its excesses, and shows how it ended in Catholic conversions and in Goethe's rejection.
The author
Heinrich Heine
1797–1856 · German poet and critic
Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer, and literary critic, born in Düsseldorf in 1797. He wrote poetry, essays, and prose. His Book of Songs appeared in 1827. He moved to Paris in 1831 and lived there for the rest of his life. He died in Paris in 1856.
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