West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe\'s Notes and Essaysthe unpublished poems by Eric Ormsby, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe\'s Notes and Essaysthe unpublished poems

Eric Ormsby, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

640 pages • first pub 1819 (editions)

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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 ...

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