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Heine's Aristophanes: Compromise formations and the ambivalence of carnival

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From: Comparative Literature
Date: 19970701
Author:Newman, Rafael

IN ONE OF HIS numerous working notes, collected and published posthumously in 1869 as Aphorismen und Fragmente, Heinrich Heine remarked upon the correspondence between life and poetry in the culture of the ancient Greeks, a correspondence which, in Heine's opinion, accounted for the Greeks having produced no writers as great as those of modern Europe, "wo das Leben oft den Gegensatz der Poesie bildet." "Shakespeares grosse Zeh," Heine goes on, "enthalt mehr Poesie als alle griechischen Poeten (mit Ausnahme des Aristophanes)" (7: 423) ("where life often opposes itself to poetry." ...

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