Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alongside the German originals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development.

Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alongside the German originals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development.

103 Great Poems

103 Great Poems PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120562
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Exceptionally fine poetry by Germany's greatest literary figure, from his earliest, "An den Schlaf" ("To Sleep"), written when he was 18, to his last great poem, "Verdächtnis" ("Legacy"), written when he was 80.

Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry PDF Author: Goethe
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141912200
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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'Shall I embrace you, must I let you go? Again you haunt me: come then, hold me fast!' Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervour, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a love affair. The Roman Elegies show Goethe's use of Classical metres in homage to abcient Rome and its poets, and 'The Diary' , supressed for more than a century, is a narrative poem whose eroticism is unusually combined with its morality. Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alonjgside the German orginals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development. This edition also includes an introduction and notes placing the poems in the context of the poet's life and times.

West-Eastern Divan

West-Eastern Divan PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Gingko Library
ISBN: 1909942413
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. In order to preserve the work’s original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary, the “Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan.” This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116436
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is universally recognized as a towering figure in world literature. This major new collection brings together poems from every decade of Goethe's writing life, in both their German originals and John Whaley's magnificent new translations--complete with their astonishing technical virtuosity, depth of feeling, wit, and occasional bawdry.

Poems of Goethe

Poems of Goethe PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469658698
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Following his previous translation of one hundred of Goethe's poems, in this volume Zeydel presents translations of a selection of Goethe's shorter poems, the majority of which were written in the last twenty years of his life. The translator gives careful attention to details of substance, form and style, and to the spirit of the original, reproducing the simplicity and naturalness of language so characteristic of Goethe. The original text in German appears on facing pages.

The Poems of Goethe

The Poems of Goethe PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects

Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017378535
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Erotica Romana

Erotica Romana PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752303522
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Reproduction of the original: Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Erotic Poems

Erotic Poems PDF Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192839398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Editorial censorship has long obscured Goethe's Roman Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his unofficial wife on his return to Germany. They are here presented as Goethe boldly conceived them, together with the long-supressed narrative poem known as The Diary. Completing the edition is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. An illuminating Introduction by Hans Vaget provides the background to these poems, as well as showing some of the profound and little-known connections between them.