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The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe

Heinrich Heine: A Test Case

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In April 1827 Heine visited England. It was a country which, he felt,

consisted of great extremes, of opulence and impoverishment, orthodoxy and disbelief, freedom and slavery, cruelty and mild temperament, honesty and cheating — with a grey misty sky overhead, the sound of machines from all sides, figures, gaslights, chimneys, newspapers, jugs of port, tight-lipped people.

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Notes

  1. Matthew Arnold, ‘Heinrich Heine’, in Essays in Criticism. First Series (1865 [London, 1964]) p. 110.

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  1. Karl-Josef Kuschel
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology, University of Durham, UK

    David Jasper (Director) (Director)

  2. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    T. R. Wright (Lecturer in English Literature) (Lecturer in English Literature)

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© 1989 David Jasper and T. R. Wright

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Kuschel, KJ. (1989). The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe. In: Jasper, D., Wright, T.R. (eds) The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20122-8_11

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