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 | | Many times he was spurred on by the Sanskrit scholar and Shakespeare translator, August Wilhelm Schlegel, who held a chair at the University in Bonn, and was one of the first to whom Heine presented his poetry for judgment: ``Schlegel is very satisfied with my poetry, and quite joyfully amazed at their originality,'' writes Heine. |
 | | Berlin was at the time the leading intellectual metropolis of Germany, and in the salons of Rahel Varnhagen, Frederike Robert and Elise von Hohenhausen, Heine became acquainted with the best minds of Germany: among whom were: Alexander von Humboldt, the Mendelssohn family, Adalbert von Chamisso and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense. |
 | | Karl Immerman Heine's best friend, wrote that at first people, wrongly, compared Heine to Byron: ``The comparison does not seem to fit: with extraordinary means, the Brit achieves only moderate poetic effects; while Heine shows the decisive capacity, to limit himself artistically, and to absorb matter entirely into the form. |
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