West-Eastern Divan: Complete, Annotated New Translation, Including Goethe's Notes and Essays & the Unpublished Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

West-Eastern Divan: Complete, Annotated New Translation, Including Goethe's Notes and Essays & the Unpublished Poems

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with Eric Ormsby (Translator)

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nonfiction poetry
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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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