Heinrich Heine (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Although Heinrich Heine is best remembered for his verse, he also made significant contributions to the development of the feuilleton and the political essay in Germany. Experiments with prose accelerated his rise to fame as a writer. Among the most important of his nonfiction works are Reisebilder (1826-1831; Pictures of Travel, 1855), a series of witty essays that are spiced with poetic imagination and penetrating social comment; Zur Geschichte der neueren schönen Litteratur in Deutschland (1833; Letters Auxiliary to the History...
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