Atta Troll

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Atta Troll is a work by Heinrich Heine, printed with an interpretation by Dr. Oscar Levy, a preface by Heine and notes by Dr. Oscar Levy. A commentary says that the German Emperor appears at least to realize how offensive and, from his point of view, dangerous, the spirit of Heinrich Heine is to this very day. In the verse, a speaker who spends a day with children says that Germany is the speaker's native country and that bears are all too common there, so the speaker took to hunting bears.

The verse also tells of a little love-lorn Prince of the Mice who knelt down at once to the Cat-King's daughter fair. A commentary says that Romanticism is represented in Heine's poem by the fairy Abunda, in contradistinction to the Greek and Semitic inspiration, represented by Diana and Herodias.

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Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine was a German poet and prose writer whose lyric clarity, political criticism, and irony made him a figure of nineteenth-century literature. Born in Düsseldorf and educated in law, he settled in Paris in 1831, writing about French and German culture for readers on both sides of the border.