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Goethe selected poems - Softcover

Bell, Matthew; Goethe

 
9780460882125: Goethe selected poems

Synopsis

This translation of Goethe's poetry remains both true in form and spirit to the original, yet is at the same time readable and engaging.

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About the Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in 1749. Having studied at Leipzig and Strassburg, he began to write some essays and lyrical verse, and at twenty-four wrote a play Goetz von Berlichingen, which brought him national fame and established him in the Sturm und Drang movement. He is most famous for his tragedy Werther. He died in 1832.


W. H. Auden was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1956 to 1960. He published poems throughout his life, and in 1946 became a US citizen. He died in 1973.

Elizabeth Mayer has also translated, in collaboration with Louise Bogan, Elective Affinities and Werther.

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