The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI

The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI.

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Title: The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. In Twenty Volumes
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VOLUME VI

HEINRICH HEINE
FRANZ GRILLPARZER
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

THE GERMAN CLASSICS
Masterpieces of German Literature
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
Patrons' Edition
IN TWENTY VOLUMES
ILLUSTRATED
1914
CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS
VOLUME VI

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI
HEINRICH HEINE
The Life of Heinrich Heine. By William Guild Howard
Poems
Dedication. Translated by Sir Theodore Martin
Songs. Translators: Sir Theodore Martin, Charles Wharton Stork, T. Brooksbank
A Lyrical Intermezzo. Translators: T. Brooksbank, Sir Theodore Martin, J.E. Wallis, Richard Garnett, Alma Strettell, Franklin Johnson, Charles G. Leland, Charles Wharton Stork
Sonnets. Translators: T. Brooksbank, Edgar Alfred Bowring
Poor Peter. Translated by Alma Strettell
The Two Grenadiers. Translated by W.H. Furness
Belshazzar. Translated by John Todhunter
The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar. Translated by Sir Theodore Martin
The Return Home. Translators: Sir Theodore Martin. Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker, James Thomson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Twilight. Translated by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker
Hail to the Sea. Translated by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker
In the Harbor. Translated by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker
A New Spring. Translators: Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker, Charles Wharton Stork
Abroad. Translated by Margaret Armour
The Sphinx. Translated by Sir Theodore Martin
Germany. Translated by Margaret Armour
Enfant Perdu. Translated by Lord Houghton
The Battlefield of Hastings. Translated by Margaret Armour
The Asra. Translated by Margaret Armour
The Passion Flower. Translated by Charles Wharton Stork
Prose
The Journey to the Harz. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
Boyhood Days. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
English Fragments--Dialogue on the Thames; London; Wellington. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
Lafayette. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
The Romantic School. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
The Rabbi of Bacharach. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
FRANZ GRILLPARZER
The Life of Franz Grillparzer. By William Guild Howard
Medea. Translated by Theodore A. Miller
The Jewess of Toledo. Translated by George Henry Danton and Annina Periam Danton
The Poor Musician. Translated by Alfred Remy
My Journey to Weimar. Translated by Alfred Remy
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven as a Letter Writer. By Walter R. Spalding
Beethoven's Letters. Translated by J.S. Shedlock

ILLUSTRATIONS--VOLUME VI
Emperor William I at a Court Reception-Frontispiece
Heinrich Heine. By W. Krauskopf
Heinrich Heine. By E. Hader
The Lorelei Fountain in New York. By Herter
Spring's Awakening. By Ludwig von Hofmann
Flower Fantasy. By Ludwig von Hofmann
Poor Peter. By P. Grotjohann
The Two Grenadiers. By P. Grotjohann
Rocky Coast. By Ludwig von Hofmann
Play of the Waves. By Arnold B?cklin
Market Place, G?ttingen
Old Imperial Palace, Goslar
The Witches' Dancing Ground
The Brocken Inn About 1830
The Falls of the Ilse
View from St. Andreasberg
Johann Wilhelm Monument, D��sseldorf
The Duke of Wellington. By d'Orsay
Bacharach on the Rhine
House in Bacharach
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer and Kaethi Fr?hlich in 1823
Grillparzer's House in Spiegelgasse
Grillparzer's Room in the House of the Sisters Fr?hlich
Franz Grillparzer in His Sixtieth Year
The Grillparzer Monument at Vienna
Medea. By Anselm Feuerbach
Medea. From the Grillparzer Monument at Vienna
Beethoven. By Max Klinger

THE LIFE OF HEINRICH HEINE
BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M. Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University
I.
The history of German literature makes mention of few men more self-centered and at the same time more unreserved than Heinrich Heine. It may be said that everything which Heine wrote gives us, and was intended to give us, first of all some new impression of the writer; so that after a perusal of his works we know him in all his strength and weakness, as we can know only an amiable and communicative egotist; moreover, besides losing no opportunity for self-expression, both in and out of season, Heine published a good deal of frankly autobiographical matter, and wrote memoirs, only fragments of which have come down to us, but of which more than has yet appeared will perhaps ultimately be made accessible. Heine's life, then, is to us for the most part an open book. Nevertheless, there are many obscure passages in it, and there remain many questions not to be answered with certainty, the first of which is as to the date of his birth. His own statements on this subject are contradictory, and the original records are lost. But it seems probable that he was born on the thirteenth of December, 1797, the eldest child of Jewish parents recently domiciled at D��sseldorf on the Rhine.
The parentage, the place, and the time were almost equally significant aspects of the constellation under which young Harry Heine--for so he was first named--began his earthly career. He was born a Jew in a German city which, with a brief interruption, was for the first sixteen years of his life administered by the French. The citizens of D��sseldorf