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Title: Atta Troll

Author: Heinrich Heine

Contributor: Oscar Levy

Illustrator: Willy Pogany

Translator: Herman Scheffauer

Release Date: February 17, 2010 [EBook #31305]

Language: English

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ATTA TROLL

_From the German of
Heinrich Heine_

by

_Herman Scheffauer_
with an introduction

by

_Dr Oscar Levy_
and some Pen-and-Ink
sketches by
_Willy Pogany_

Sidgwick & Jackson London 1913

[Illustration: Frontispiece]

[Illustration:

ATTA TROLL

From the German of
_Heinrich Heine_

by

_Herman Scheffauer_
with some Pen-and-Ink
sketches by
_Willy Pogany _

Sidgwick & Jackson London 1913]

[Illustration]

CONTENTS

page

INTRODUCTION
An Interpretation of Heinrich
Heine's "Atta Troll," by Dr.
Oscar Levy 3

PREFACE
By Heine 25

ATTA TROLL 35

NOTES
By Dr. Oscar Levy 165

ILLUSTRATIONS

page

FRONTISPIECE ii

TITLE-PAGE iii

ATTA TROLL iv

INTRODUCTION (Half-Title) 1

ATTA TROLL (Half-Title) 33

_The headings and tail-pieces to the Cantos are by Horace Taylor_

[Illustration: INTRODUCTION]

AN INTERPRETATION OF HEINRICH HEINE'S "ATTA TROLL"

_HE who has visited the idyllic isle of Corfu must have seen, gleaming
white amidst its surroundings of dark green under a sky of the deepest
blue, the Greek villa which was erected there by Elizabeth, Empress of
Austria. It is called the Achilleion. In its garden there is a small
classic temple in which the Empress caused to be placed a marble statue
of her most beloved of poets, Heinrich Heine. The statue represented the
poet seated,