Nigel Reeves is Professor of German at Aston University, Birmingham (UK). He is the co-translator/introducer of Heinrich von Kleist’s The Marquise von O - and Other Stories (Penguin Classics).
‘…opens to view the swirling currents of thought and feeling in whose midst Heine stood: Byronism, his affinities with Sterne, Don Quixote, Goethe, with German idealism, Saint-Simonianism, left Hegelianism, Young Germany, and Marx. This is a study of the first importance for the Heine scholar and the specialist in 19th-century thought’
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