By the rivers of Babylon
Subtitle: Heinrich Heine's late songs and reflections
By: Roger F. Cook.
Series: Kritik; Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-390) and index.