CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: Goethe the Revolutionary by Frederick Turner
FOREWORD: Biography as Poetry, Poetry as Biography by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
THE GOLDEN GOBLET: SELECTED POEMS OF GOETHE
Epigraph for an Introduction to The West-East Divan
The Luck of Love
Dedication
Maying
Welcome and Farewell
Wild Rose
The New Amadis
Wanderer’s Storm Song
Mahomet’s Song
Prometheus
Ganymede
The King in Thule
To Cousin Kronos, the Coachman
On the Lake
The Artist’s Evening Song
The Bliss of Grief
Wanderer’s Night Song (1)
To Charlotte von Stein
Restless Love
Winter Journey in the Harz
To the Moon
All Things the Gods Bestow
Take This to Heart
The Fisherman
Song of the Spirits upon the Waters
Song of the Parcae
Wanderer’s Night Song (2)
Night Thoughts
Human Limitations
My Goddess
The Elf-King
Divinity
“Joyful and Woeful …”
Morning Complaints
Five Roman Elegies (1788–1790):
The Nearness of the Beloved
The Silent Sea
Three Poems from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795–96):
“D’you know that land where lemon blossoms blow …”
“Ah, none but those who yearn …”
“Who never ate his bread with tears …”
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The God and the Dancer
The Bride of Corinth
The Metamorphosis of the Plants
World Soul
Nature and Art
Permanence in Change
Night Song
The Sonnet
The Metamorphosis of the Animals
Farewell
The Lover Writes Again
Eight Poems from The West-East Divan
Talismans
Blessed Yearning
To Zuleika
Ginkgo Biloba
Limitless
In a Thousand Forms
The Higher and the Highest
Elements
from Parabolic
Limitation
To Luna
Lovely Is the Night
Muteness
Proem
Ur-Words: Orphic
At Midnight
Refinding
In Honor of Luke Howard
Always and Everywhere
The One and the All
Trilogy of Passion
The Pariah
The Bridegroom
A Better Understanding (from The West-East Divan)
from The Legacy
from The Chinese-German Daybook-Yearbook:
“Twilight from the heights …”
Full Moon Rising
Dornburg
Ten Poems from Faust:
1. Dedication (To Faust, Part 1)
2. Prologue in Heaven
3. Faust in His Study
4. Faust Translating the Gospel
5. In Martha’s Garden
6. Mephistopheles Speaks
7. The Bailey
8. Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel
9. Faust’s Remorse
10. Chorus Mysticus
AFTERWORD: Natural Meanings: On Translation by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner
List of English and German Titles