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By the rivers of Babylon : Heinrich Heine's late songs and reflections

Roger Cook offers an analysis of Heine's vehement renunciation of the Hegelian ideas that had shaped his earlier conception of history. Refuting accepted opinions that this shift in thought was a displaced opposition to social developments, Cook contends that these late writings represent Heine's consistent rejection of idealist philosophy and reveal Heine's new understanding of poetry's role as a transmitter of myth
Print Book, English, ©1998
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich., ©1998