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"The comfort of coming to a man of
genius, who finds in verse his freest and most perfect expression,
whose voyage over the deep of poetry destiny makes smooth! 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."
--MATTHEW ARNOLD |
