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Article: The Poet as Provocateur: Heinrich Heine and His Critics.(Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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The Poet as Provocateur: Heinrich Heine and His Critics. By George F. Peters. Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000. Pp. xii + 227. [pound]35.00.
In Ecce Homo, Nietzsche wrote that 'the highest concept of the lyrical poet' was given to him by Heine: 'He possesses that divine malice without which I cannot imagine perfection.' It is precisely this gottliche Bosheit that has made Heine a writer with whom critics have had, and continue to have, such difficulty coming to terms. George F. Peters's book aims 'to properly convey the at times spirited, at times rancorous debate surrounding' Heine -- a debate, much of whose heat was fuelled by two ...