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Drawing v PhotographyBen Heine's photostream of drawings interfacing with photos.

Internet picks of the week

Drawing v PhotographyBen Heine's photostream of drawings interfacing with photos.

Internet picks of the week

It is taken from Heinrich Heine's poem Enfant Perdu, whose first line runs, "Verlorner Posten in dem Freiheitskriege" Vacated positions in the war of freedom.

Christa Wolf obituary

Through a series of potted biographies, he presents a tour d'horizon of the romantic movement in 1824, a year that included "the Ninth Symphony, Byron's death" -- fighting for Greek freedom, by the way -- "Pushkin's Boris Godunov and 'To the Sea,' Delacroix's Massacre at Chios, Stendhal's Racine and Shakespeare, and Heine's Harz Journey and North Sea Pictures."

'The Ninth: Beethoven and the World of 1824,' by Harvey Sachs

"Heine's Preparation to cure what ail's your Heine."

"It was such a loosey-goosey era. I'm guilty for a lot of things. I'm guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions."

Among Heine's most charming prose offerings is "Travel Pictures," a series of eccentric travel memoirs now published in a beautiful new edition.

Touring With an Eccentric Guide

Matthew Arnold, in a notable essay, stressed Heine's "wonderful clearness, lightness, and freedom."

Touring With an Eccentric Guide

It contains bits of poetry, attacks on Heine's enemies, reflections on Goethe and "Don Quixote," and even a paean to Napoleon.

Touring With an Eccentric Guide

One has only to note the repeated references to religion and religious feeling and imagery ‎ in the preceding paragraph – both on Finer's part and Heine's – to "hear the voice of God ‎ in that of the People", to repeat Aldous Huxley's expression. ‎

The Seven Dimensions

Nathanael Robinson at "The Rhine River" notes that Friday is the 150th anniversary of Heine's death.

Heinrich Heine