Ebook: Heine

Cover; Title Page; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1: POETRY VERSUS POLITICS; 2: THE SPIRIT VERSUS THE SENSES; 3: BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS; 4: BETWEEN RELIGIONS; NOTES; FURTHER READING; INDEX OF HEINE'S WORKS; INDEX; Also in the Jewish Thinkers Series; Copyright.;Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyrical and satirical poetry, travel writing, fiction, and essays on literature, art, politics, philosophy and history. He was a biting satirist, and a perceptive commentator on the world around him. One of his admirers, Friedrich Nietzsche, said of him:?he possessed that divine malice without which perfection, for me, is unimaginable.' Heine was conscious of living after two revolutions. The French Revolution had changed the world forever. Heine experienced its effects.