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Selected Poems: The Collected Works of Goethe, Volume 1

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (Translator), Christopher Middleton (Translator), John Frederick Nims (Translator), Vernon Watkins (Translator), Christopher Middleton (Editor), Michael Hamburger (Translator)
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By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (Translator), Christopher Middleton (Translator), John Frederick Nims (Translator), Vernon Watkins (Translator), Christopher Middleton (Editor), Michael Hamburger (Translator)
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Authoritative English translations of Goethe’s major poetic works

Goethe created a body of poetry that is unsurpassed in lucidity of speech and imagery and in instinct for melody and rhythm. The founder of the poetry of experience, he reintroduced intimacy to the public world, and his poems have something for everyone. Nonetheless, Goethe the poet remains relatively unknown to contemporary English-speaking audiences, partly because of the difficulties his poetry has posed to translators. Thi...