West-East Divan: Poems, with "Notes and Essays": Goethe's Intercultural Dialogues

Synopsis

Translations of goethe’s poems about arabia and persia and his essays on islamic culture. In west-east divan (1819), germany’s greatest poet j. W. Von goethe offered a work of lasting appeal. Stimulated by the divan (“collection”) by medieval pub poet hafiz, goethe blends his own identity with that of the persian sufi master who sang the delights of wine and tavern romance in a context of qur’anic allusion.