Die romantische Schule. Kritische ausgabe. Herausgegeben von Helga Weidmann. by HEINE, Heinrich (1797-1856) - 1976

Stuttgart:: Philipp Reclam Jun., 1976., 1976. Sm. 8vo. 450 pp. Index. Yellow printed wrappers. ISBN: 3150098319 Heine was a German poet and literary critic, himself a member of the "Romantic School." "Heine was deliberately attacking Madame de Staël's book De l'Allemagne (1813) which he viewed as reactionary, Romantic and obscurantist. He felt de Staël had portrayed a Germany of "poets and thinkers", dreamy, religious, introverted and cut off from the revolutionary currents of the modern world. Heine thought that such an image suited the oppressive German authorities. He also had an Enlightenment view of the past, seeing it as mired in superstition and atrocities."