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  Heinrich Heine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After Heine's business career failed he turned to the study of law at the universities of Göttingen, Bonn and Berlin, but found that he was more interested in literature than law, although he eventually took a degree in law in 1825, at the same time he had decided to convert from Judaism to Protestantism.
Heine is best known for his lyric poetry, much of which (especially from his earlier works) was set to music by lieder composers, most notably by Robert Schumann.
Heine suffered from ailments that kept him bedridden for the last eight years of his life (some have suggested he suffered from multiple sclerosis or syphilis).
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 MSN Encarta - Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet, who gained lasting fame for his lyrical poems and ballads, which are noted for the variety of moods and emotions they express.
In the 1830s Heine became a prominent member of a literary group known as Junges Deutschland (Young Germany), which attacked the German school of Romanticism for having come under the domination of the monarchy and the church.
In Paris Heine wrote for several German newspapers and became friends with writers such as Honoré de Balzac and George Sand and composers such as Hector Berlioz and Frédéric Chopin.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566792/Heinrich_Heine.html   (635 words)

  
 Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was born in Düsseldorf, the son of a Jewish tradesman.
Heine studied law at the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Göttingen, gaining his degree in 1825, but was always more interested in literature.
Heine was a perplexing man, and the poetry combines surface lightness with probing thought, faith with cynicism, hope for a better world with doubts that the arts would achieve very much.
www.poetry-portal.com /poets38.html   (902 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Heinrich Heine (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Heine's writing reflects the dualism of his nature; it shows strong influences of both classic and romantic German literature.
Heine's later poems and especially his prose works established him as a satirist of barbed wit and as an embittered critic of romanticism, of jingoistic patriotism, and of current social and political affairs.
Possibly because of their cosmopolitan character, Heine's works have never been as popular in Germany as they have in other lands.
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 Heinrich Heine
Heine moves to Paris, where he lives for the rest of his life.
10 December: Heine's writings, along with those of the so-called "Young German" school of writers, are officially banned throughout Germany.
Heine collapses with a painful and parlyzing illness; bedridden for the last eight years of his life.
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 Heinrich Heine: Poems
The magic of Heine's poetical form is incomparable; he employs this form with the most exquisite lightness and ease, and yet it has at the same time the inborn fulness, pathos, and old-world charm of all true forms of popular poetry.
Thus in Heine's poetry, too, one perpetually blends the impression of French modernism and clearness with that of German sentiment and fulness."
Heinrich Heine: Bibliography - A bibliography of the English works of Heinrich Heine; includes a list of critical and biographical resources.
www.poetry-archive.com /h/heine_heinrich.html   (133 words)

  
 Heinrich Heine [1797-1856] in English translation
Heinrich Heine was known for his caustic and humorous observations on contemporary trends, in philosophy, politics, and the arts.
We have concentrated our efforts on some of Heine's more polemical poems, of which some are rarely translated.
In celebration of our ten year anniversary, we are pleased to announce the posting a of translation of Heine's epic poem, Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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