{"product_id":"westeastern-divan-complete-annotated-new-translation-including-goethes-notes-and-essays-the-unpublished-poems","title":"West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe's \"Notes and Essays\" \u0026 the unpublished poems","description":"In 1814  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by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 worlds 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 Goethes Divan. In order to preserve the works 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 Goethes 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.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44649876521013,"sku":"ByrdShop_1909942243","price":226.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1909942243_0f56367d-f2dd-48e1-b8ab-4ab89f658ee5.jpg?v=1770153278","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/westeastern-divan-complete-annotated-new-translation-including-goethes-notes-and-essays-the-unpublished-poems","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}