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Article: By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2001
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By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections. By ROGER F. COOK. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 1998. 400 pp. $39.99.
Heine's late work, and especially his final collection of verse, Romanzero, has perennially been a great source of frustration for scholars and admirers. Heine's 'late period' is seen to commence with the onset of a debilitating affliction of the nervous system in 1848, which left him basically bedridden until his death in 1856. The transformation from bon vivant to invalid also brought with it astonishing changes in his intellectual position and poetic practice. Confined to what he described as a 'Matratzengruft', ...