Excerpt from Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Poems, Selected and Translated

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.

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