Exiles and Ironists: Essays on the Kinship of Heine and Laforgue

by Ursula Franklin

This study examines the literary and intellectual kinship between Heinrich Heine, who wrote most of his mature work in France, and Jules Laforgue, who wrote most of his poetry and prose in Germany. Both expatriate poets mark the end of literary traditions which they revolutionized: Heine transformed German Romantic, Laforgue French Symbolist poetry; and their innovative voices were to have repercussions far beyond their own times and national traditions.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820405590
• ISBN13: 9780820405599
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 263 Pages