Excerpt from The Romantic School Nobody can translate Heine without facing the prob lem whether to present the great man as he was, or to destroy much of the psychological value of his work by trimming it to suit the public idea, or rather the trans lator's idea of the public idea. Once before, the pres ent translator decided the question in the second way. He is satisfied that he made errors, both in setting him self up to judge Heine, and in distorting one of the greatest and most interesting psychological phenomena literature has produced. In this volume, so far as his abilities permit, he pre sents Heine as he is. If any vindication is needed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.