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Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, …
Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus,' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a …
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『西東詩集』は、1819年に刊行されたドイツの作家、詩人ヨハン・ヴォルフガング・フォン・ゲーテの代表的詩集である。 晩年のゲーテは東洋オリエントに憧れるようになり、クルアーンやペルシャの詩人ハーフェズの詩を好んで読んでいた。特にハーフェズの詩集の独訳が1814年に発表されると、多大な影響を受ける。ゲーテはハーフェズに憧れ、東洋への憧れ、人間の自然としての姿、文明に汚れていない世界に思いをはせ、次々に詩編を書いた。『西東詩集』が刊行されたのはゲーテが70歳の時であり、ゲーテの辿り着いた思想が結集されている。内的経験からでた文学観、汎神論的な宗教観、自然探求による宇宙観が深く描かれている。 …