Title: By the rivers of Babylon
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Heine, heinrich, 1797-1856, German poetry, history and criticism
People: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
LC classification: PT2307 .C66 1998