Heinrich Heine's Reception in Romance Literatures

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In contrast to Germany, where Heine’s works were much maligned, censored and then prohibited (during the Restoration after 1835; later under the Nazis, 1933-45), his prose and poetry gained an enthusiastic reception beyond the borders of his native country in the second half of the nineteenth century. His poems were even more widely disseminated than Goethe’s to the far corners of Europe and the Americas in the original, in translation, and especially “auf den Flügeln des Gesanges” (“on the wings of songs”, Heine,

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# 9). That he had such an astonishing effect on Romance literatures, i.e. those descended from the spoken Latin of the Roman Empire (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian), is due to several distinct reasons. Of primary importance was…

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Citation: Hoffmeister, Gerhart. "Heinrich Heine's Reception in Romance Literatures". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 April 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=16297, accessed 29 March 2024.]

16297 Heinrich Heine's Reception in Romance Literatures 2 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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