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Travel-Pictures, Including the Tour in the Harz, Norderney, and Book of Ideas, Together With the Romantic School
TravelPictures Including the Tour in the Harz Norderney and Book of Ideas Together With the Romantic School Author:Heinrich Heine General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: G. Bell Subjects: Romanticism Harz Mountains (Germany) Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / German Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Iris... more »h, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDICES. APPENDIX I. A Bibliographical And Biographical Note On The " Harzreise " And " Norderney." THE first mention of the " Harzreise " occurs in a letter of Heine to Moser, dated 25th October, 1824 : -- " The trip did me a great deal of good, and I feel all the stronger for it. I explored the whole of the Harz, on foot and mostly alone -- lovely mountains, lovely forests and valleys -- and once more breathed freely. I returned by way of Eisleben, Halle, Jena, Weimar, Erfurt, Gotha, Eisenach, and Cassel, still tramping it. There was enough to delight and charm me by the way, and, if I had not all the time been haunted by the ghost of Jurisprudence, I should have found it a glorious world. I've plenty to tell you about this Harz tour, but I've begun- to write it all down, and shall probably send it Gubitz in the course of the winter. I intend to introduce some of the poetry which you affect -- fine generous feelings, and suchlike sentimental rubbish. What would you have ? To set oneself against conventional platitude is a thankless task. . . . I was at Weimar; the beer there is first-rate. ... It was delicious to meet a theological student in the Harz who had burdened his knapsack with a copy of my ' Tragedies,' and was devoting his vacation to the pleasure of refuting them. I am dailyme...« less