Poems of Heinrich Heine

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Among other and less significant things, he recog nizes him as a romanticist and the chief foe of Romanticism; a true poet and a born journalist; an historian without method, a philosopher without a real philosophy; a free liver and yet loyal to his wife and reverent of his mother; the most tender of Teutonic poets and the most brutally cynical; a Ger man, yet the bitterest scourge of Germany; an intense admirer of Sterne, a lover of Shakespeare, a com mender of the poets of England, and a hater of the nation and everything English; a cynic who laughed at sentiment, and a sentimentalist in spite of all things - impatient and irritable in health, of heroic endur ance in ills more terrible than ever fell to the lot of a poet.