HEINRICH HEINE: PARADOX AND POET -Louis Untermeyer -Harcourt, Brace (Two vols. $6).
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of...
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