Heyse

[ hahy-zuh ]

/ ˈhaɪ zə /

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noun

Paul (Jo·hann von)

[poul yoh-hahn fuhn], /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/, 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.

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Heyse is like a painter's poet, ideally beautiful; rather brilliant in his talk, and altogether pleasing.
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The Prussian state library bought the Heyse and Meusebach collections.
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Heyse leaves himself out, although he is the greatest literary character of them all.
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There are excellent German translations of the poems by Heyse and Brandes.
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Paul Heyse was the medium of his making the acquaintance of Schack.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4)|Richard Muther