Thomas Carlyle commented over 150 years ago that the name Goethe
conjured up something vague and monstrous to English ears - a
reaction still recognisable today. As a contribution towards
redressing this situation this volume, published on the 250th
anniversary of Goethe's birth, contains the largest selection ever
published of his poetry in English verse translation. The poems
(alongside their German originals) are arranged chronologically and
- among much else - include his most famous lyrical verse, longer
poems in their entirety, passages from his poetic drama "Faust" and
from his popular but in English little-known romantic idyll
"Hermann and Dorothea", and the whole of his long-suppressed
masterpiece "The Diary", sometimes referred to as the most moral
erotic poem ever written. The whole sequence gives a picture of
Goethe's extraordinarily rich and unusual poetic development. A
substantial introduction sets the poetic work in the context of
Goethe's often surprisingly unsettled life. Much in Goethe has been
censured or rejected by puritanical moralists over the years,
particularly in England where he incurred the disapproval of
Wordsworth, among others. This comprehensive selection and its new
translations offer English-speaking readers the chance to enjoy
Goethe's prodigious gifts and huge variety of subject matter and
mood, and to appreciate why his name is so often set alongside
those of Dante and Shakespeare.
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