West-East Divan:
Poems, with "Notes and Essays":
Goethe's Intercultural Dialogues
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, & Martin Bidney (Translator)
Global Academic Publishing, 2010. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 474 pages. Translations of Goethe’s poems about Arabia and Persia and his essays on Islamic culture.
“Bidney’s translations of the … Divan poems … render, for the first time, both form and content in a way that is faithful to the original. The poetical commentaries authored by … Bidney are of a stunning originality and … are composed entirely in the spirit of Goethe’s own conception of world literature as a deeply felt interchange among peoples and cultures. I recommend this book most emphatically and with highest praise, in the hope that after nearly two hundred years it will help Goethe’s West-East Divan to make the breakthrough it deserves in the English-speaking world.” ― Katharina Mommsen
“Bidney’s Introduction … correctly indicates that Goethe [offers] ‘one of the most notable and far-reaching visions of East-West understanding achieved in modern times …’ [This] ‘englishing’ of the Divan [is] a pleasure to read.” ― Khalil Semaan
About the Author
Martin Bidney is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. His books include Blake and Goethe, Patterns of Epiphany, A Poetic Dialogue with Adam Mickiewicz, and East-West Poetry.
Loc: E7
West-East Divan:
Poems, with "Notes and Essays":
Goethe's Intercultural Dialogues
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, & Martin Bidney (Translator)
Global Academic Publishing, 2010. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 474 pages. Translations of Goethe’s poems about Arabia and Persia and his essays on Islamic culture.
“Bidney’s translations of the … Divan poems … render, for the first time, both form and content in a way that is faithful to the original. The poetical commentaries authored by … Bidney are of a stunning originality and … are composed entirely in the spirit of Goethe’s own conception of world literature as a deeply felt interchange among peoples and cultures. I recommend this book most emphatically and with highest praise, in the hope that after nearly two hundred years it will help Goethe’s West-East Divan to make the breakthrough it deserves in the English-speaking world.” ― Katharina Mommsen
“Bidney’s Introduction … correctly indicates that Goethe [offers] ‘one of the most notable and far-reaching visions of East-West understanding achieved in modern times …’ [This] ‘englishing’ of the Divan [is] a pleasure to read.” ― Khalil Semaan
About the Author
Martin Bidney is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. His books include Blake and Goethe, Patterns of Epiphany, A Poetic Dialogue with Adam Mickiewicz, and East-West Poetry.
Loc: E7
