Selected Poetry [electronic resource]
Goethe2005
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'Shall I embrace you, must I let you go? Again you haunt me: come then, hold me
fast!'
Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the
works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the
poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religion in an almost
ecstatic fervour, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a
love affair. The Roman Elegies show Goethe's use of Classical metres in homage
to abcient Rome and its poets, and 'The Diary' , supressed for more than a
century, is a narrative poem whose eroticism is unusually combined with its
morality.
Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alonjgside the
German orginals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development. This edition
also includes an introduction and notes placing the poems in the context of the
poet's life and times.
Main title:
Author:
Goethe, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2005
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (336 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141912202
Language:
English
BRN:
427641
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