Download or read book West Eastern Divan written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Gingko Library. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. In order to preserve the work’s original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary, the “Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan.” This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.
Download or read book Goethe s West Easterly Divan written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goethe s West Easterly Divan written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of the West and the East written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English verse translation of Goethe's West-Eastern Divan aims to give English-readers a fair indication of the themes, quality and flavour of Goethe's major cycle of lyric poetry. As far as possible it remains faithful to Goethe's metrical and rhyming patterns. The Divan's wealth of earnest depth and passion is conveyed with an often casual simplicity of vocabulary and expression. It moves through changing moods from which wit and grace and good humour are never long absent when the mind is, as in these poems, at play and in command. Goethe described this complexity as «Unconditional submission to the unfathomable will of God, serene conspectus of the activities of this earth, mobile and always in circles and spirals, love, inclination hovering between two worlds, all the real purified, dissolving in symbol». The English translation seeks to keep to the poetic tones in Goethe's seemingly effortless words.
Download or read book The West Eastern Divan of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe written by Ro bert Martin and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ageing Goethe finds new inspiration and youthfulness through the love of a young woman and the example of the great Persian poet Hafez.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a towering figure in German culture, was remarkably prolific in many literary genres. But much of his work is scarcely known in the English-speaking world. With this new translation, Robert Martin tries to remedy this situation with regard to one of Goethe's most adventurous volumes of verse, the West-Eastern Divan. Here Goethe playfully pretends to be a Middle-Eastern poet, but draws on themes vital to all of humanity - love, creativity, wisdom, richness of life."
Download or read book A New Divan written by Barbara Schwepcke and published by Gingko Library. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now reaching its 200th anniversary, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sequence of poems, the West-Eastern Divan serves as the inspiration for this new collection poems by twenty-four international poets. Goethe’s original work shows the poet looking east from his homeland of Germany to build a collection of writing inspired by the poetic traditions of Persia. In twelve books, Goethe writes on a variety of great poetic themes, including love, humor, parables, and paradise. Over the years since its original publication in 1819, the Divan has served as inspiration for a variety of literary, theoretical, and musical responses. A New Divan revisits Goethe’s work in a lively celebration of cross-cultural exchange. Works by twelve poets from the East and twelve from the West respond to the themes laid out in Goethe’s Divan and build bridges between cultures, nationalities, and languages. The poets have been paired to write in response to each of the twelve books of the Divan, and here present their multi-lingual works in eleven different languages, each with a poetic interpretation written in English. Three pairs of essays complement and shed further light on the series of poetic exchanges. These writings mirror the original notes that Goethe included in his West-Eastern Divan. Reaching through time, language, and poetic history, A New Divan offers a lyrical conversation and opens paths of connection across cultures.
Download or read book Goethe s West Easterly Divan written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Goethe's West-Easterly Divan: Translated, With Introduction and Notes The cause of this apparent indifference to his country's political welfare lay within his temperament and mental structure: it is interesting to observe that it was an organic exigency of his nature, as little to be modified or cancelled as was that devotion to knowledge, art, and culture which flourished by favor of this indifference. The genius instinctively submitted to its own law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book West eastern Divan written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goethe s West Easterly Divan written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... was sad. The ruler pondered when the spender died To whom the giving power he should confide; But scarce could he consider who Than monstrous rich the taker grew; When for a day one ceased to give, For gold the people scarce could live. Then to the monarch first 'twas plain How every mischief hatches gain: Of that good chance he made the most, And never filled the spender's post. The new pot to the kettle said, "Thy belly has a smutty look!" "It is because I serve the cook. Snick up, snick up, thou ninnyhead, An end there '11 soon be to thy story: So don't because the handle 's clean Go strutting in that conceited mien, But look at thy--' retiring glory.'" All the people, great and small, Spin a web against the wall; With nippers anxious for a bit Right smartly in the midst they sit. A broom comes travelling into it: Unheard of outrage--they exclaim, Greatest of palaces! What a shame! From heaven descending, Jesus brought The holy Writ's eternal thought. To his disciples day and night He read the Word that works with might, Then took it back the way it came. But they had rightly caught its aim, So, step by step, each one declared The way its sense within them fared, Each different. That's of no account, In wit they varied and amount; Yet Christians find in it to stay Their hunger till the judgment-day. IT IS GOOD. In Paradise by moonlight spied The Lord his Adam sunk in sleep, Drew near, and softly by his side He placed an Eve in slumber deep. In limits of the clay expressed, God's two divinest thoughts there rest. 'Tis good! He cried, the skill to pay, And scarce could tear himself away. No wonder that the spell is fine When eyes do first to eyes incline, As if the glances went so far We came to Him whose thoughts we...
Download or read book Goethe s East West Divan written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This limited edition pamphlet, letterpress printed on handmade paper with watermark, features an English translation of a poem by Goethe alongside the original text. --Canonymous Press.
Download or read book Goethe s Reineke Fox West Eastern Divan and Achilleid written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West East Divan written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations of Goethe’s poems about Arabia and Persia and his essays on Islamic culture.
Download or read book Dramatic Works written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goethes West Easterly Divan 1877 written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1877 Edition.
Download or read book The West Eastern Divan of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a towering figure in German culture, was remarkably prolific in many literary genres. Much of his work is scarcely known in the English-speaking world. With this new translation, Robert Martin tries to remedy this situation with regard to one of Goethe's most adventurous volumes of verse, the "West-Eastern Divan".
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Download or read book Try Never written by Anthony Madrid and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Written under the spell of a medieval Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's incantatory second book, TRY NEVER, each offer up their own strange world. They're full of erudition, humor, and rare magnificence. A single poem can contain "bottles and cans," Mount Everest, an upset stomach, Texas rain, a hawk, the evil queen, a "twice- mended lid," and Ralph; as if to say, anything's possible.
