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"Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen" (Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen) is an important political satire poem by Heinrich Heine. This was written when he went home to visit his mother in October 1843. At that time, he saw that the entire German rule was as cold as winter and he was inspired. The whole book is full of laughter and curses, and the language is sharp. The poet pointed out: "The hypocritical old generation is disappearing" and "the new generation is growing up."

"On Romanticism" is Heine's masterpiece of literary theory. It is a polemical work against Mrs. De Steyr's "Deutsche Deutschland" and is intended to correct Mrs. Steyr's excessive praise of German romantic literature. Heine laughed and scolded, and discussed the origin and development of German Romantic literature vividly, talking about the works of writers such as the Schlegel brothers, Tieck, Hoffmann, Arnim, Novalis, Fouquet, Brentano, Jean Paul, Goethe, and the thoughts of philosophers such as Hegel and Schelling. Heine criticized the shortcomings of German Romanticism and affirmed the brilliance of its excellent works. Mr. Zhang Yushu's translation style is free and vigorous, sonorous and powerful, which deeply captures the three flavors of the original work.