West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation (bilingual edition)

In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by the Austrian scholar Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. The book was a revelation. He referred to Hafiz as his twin and was immediately inspired to create a Divan of his own. At the same time Goethe met and fell in love with Marianne von Willemer and the homage he had begun to Hafiz blossomed into a duet for two lovers. In this much anticipated new translation,...