Selected Poems (European Poetry Classics) - Softcover

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von; Whaley, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081011643X ISBN 13: 9780810116436

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

One of world literature's towering figures, Goethe dominated two centuries of European writing and thought. The Enlightenment's most wayward genius, and Romanticism's most remarkable, he led two great artistic movements without fully subscribing to either. While his stature in the English-speaking world is often acknowledged, his poems are little regarded, for the simple reason that they have proven untranslatable. But thanks to John Whaley's outstanding translation, Goethe's poetry can at last be appreciated in English, with all its grace, music, and humanity intact.

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About the Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a towering figure in German literature, was the author of "The Sorrows of Young Werther, Faust, Italian Journey, The Theory of Colours" (MIT Press edition, 1970), and many other works.

Review

(a Dying Fly)
Antepirrhema
At Midnight
Autumn Feeling
The Bridgegroom
Chinese-german Hours And Seasons
Darling Trees, Do You Need Telling
Dedication
The Diary
The Divine
Dornburg, September 1828
Epirrhema
An Equation
Eve Of St Nepomuk
Friendly Xenia, Sels
Ganymede
The God And The Bayadere
Lasting Change
Lili's Park
Love Without Peace
Lover's Nearness
May Song
Meeting And Parting
Memorial
The Metamorphosis Of Plants
Mohammed's Song
Nature And Art
Need For Love
The New Amadis
New Love, New Life
On The Lake
One And All
Presence
Primal Words, Orphic
Prometheus
Roman Elegies
Satyros
Schiller's Remains
Sonnet Cycle: 1. Unexpected Overwhelming
Sonnet Cycle: 10. She Cannot End
Sonnet Cycle: 11. Nemesis
Sonnet Cycle: 12. Christmas Present
Sonnet Cycle: 13. Warning
Sonnet Cycle: 14. Doubters
Sonnet Cycle: 15. Girl
Sonnet Cycle: 16. Epoch
Sonnet Cycle: 17. Charade
Sonnet Cycle: 2. Friendly Meeting
Sonnet Cycle: 3. Enough
Sonnet Cycle: 4. The Girl Speaks
Sonnet Cycle: 5. Growth
Sonnet Cycle: 6. Provisions
Sonnet Cycle: 7. Parting
Sonnet Cycle: 8. His Love Writes
Sonnet Cycle: 9. His Love Writes Again
Spring All Year Through
Testament
To The Full Moon Rising
To The Moon
To The New Year, Sels
To The Spirit Of Johannes Secundus
Trilogy Of Passion
Unless The Eye Had Sunlike Parts
Untitled-from Egmont
Venetian Epigrams
What God Would Nudge His World But Not Be In It
Whatever You Think Truth Or Fable
When Spring's Gold Sunshine Hours Enspelled Me
Why Give Us Deep Vision...?
Wihelm Tischbein's Idylls
Winter Journey In The Harz
World Soul
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081011643X
• ISBN 13: 9780810116436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175