in
Heine's verse we shall not have to look in vain, it is true, but we
shall find much less than his popular reputation as a poet of
Weltschmerz would lead us to expect; and we frequently gain the
impression that his disposition and his personal experiences are after
all largely the excuse for rather than the occasion of his Weltschmerz.

Pluemacher maintains: "Der Weltschmerz ist entweder die absolute
Passivitaet, und die Klage seine einzige Aeusserung, oder aber er
verpufft seine Kraefte in rein subjectivistischen, eudaemonischen
Anstrengungen,"[282]--a characterization which certainly holds good in
the case of Lenau and Hoelderlin respectively. Hoelderlin, although in a
visionary, idealistic way, remains, en in his Weltschmerz, altruistic
and constructive. Lenau is passive, while Heine is solely egoistic and
destructive.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 181: "Studien und Wandertage," Frauenfeld, Huber, 1884.]

[Footnote 182: Vol. II, p. 265.]

[Footnote 183: "Franzoesische Maler. Gemaelde-Ausstellung in Paris, 1831."
Heines Saemmtliche Werke, mit Einleitung von E. Elster. Leipzig,
Bibliogr. Inst., 1890. (Hereafter quoted as "Werke.") Vol. IV, p. 61.]

[Footnote 184: "Selina, oder ueber die Unsterblichkeit," II, p. 132.]

[Footnote 185: "Heinrich Heines Krankheit und Leidensgeschichte." Eine
kritische Studie, von S. Rahmer, Dr. Med., Berlin, 1901.]

[Footnote 186: "Das Liebesleben Hoelderlin's, Lenaus, Heines." Berlin,
1901.]

[Footnote 187: Rahmer, op. cit. p. 45.]

[Footnote 188: Rahmer, p. 46.]

[Footnote 189: Werke, Vol. III, p. 194.]

[Footnote 190: Karpeles ed. Werke (2. Aufl.) VIII, p. 441.]

[Footnote 191: _Ibid._, p. 378.]

[Footnote 192: _Ibid._, p. 520.]

[Footnote 193: Karpeles ed. Werke, IX, p. 371.]

[Footnote 194: _Ibid._, p. 374.]

[Footnote 195: _Ibid._, p. 459 ff.]

[Footnote 196: _Ibid._, p. 513.]

[Footnote 197: _Ibid._, p. 475.]

[Footnote 198: Werke, Vol. I, p. 72, Nos. 18 and 19.]

[Footnote 199: Werke, Vol. I, p. 123, No. 62.]

[Footnote 200: Lenaus Werke, Vol. I, p. 257 ff.]

[Footnote 201: Werke, Vol. I, p. 37.]

[Footnote 202: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 11.]

[Footnote 203: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 97.]

[Footnote 204: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 177.]

[Footnote 205: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 197.]

[Footnote 206: Karpeles ed. Werke, VIII, p. 408.]

[Footnote 207: _Ibid._, p. 468.]

[Footnote 208: Karpeles ed. Werke, Vol. II, p. 31.]

[Footnote 209: A few other examples of this same c