Heinrich Heine#
Summary#
Nietzsche presents Heinrich Heine as a German poet who has been “reincarnated in the more refined and fastidious lyrists of Paris,” finding a more natural home in French intellectual culture than in Germany. Heine serves as an example of the kind of German thinker who flourishes within France’s tradition of psychological refinement and artistic taste, representing a sensibility too sophisticated for the cultural “tediousness” Nietzsche associates with his native country.