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Poems of the East and West

work by Goethe

Also known as: “West-östlicher Divan”

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In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Napoleonic period (1805–16) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poems of the East and West). Goethe was fleeing from the upheavals of his own time. But in 1816 he was cruelly reminded that he could not flee present reality entirely. His wife died in June, probably of epilepsy. He abandoned a third visit to…
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influence of Islamic literature

In Islamic arts: Islamic literatures and the West
…Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s enchanting West-östlicher Divan (1819; “The Parliament of East and West”; Eng. trans. Poems of the East and West), a collection of self-consciously Persian-style poetry, which represented the first Western response to and appreciation of the character of Middle Eastern poetry by an acknowledged giant of European…
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