Summary
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: West-East Divan - Herman and Dorothea
West-East Divan published in 1818, is the last great collection of Goethe's poems. The decisive impulse for the work on the Divan comes from 1814, when Goethe met the collection of oriental poems Divan by the Persian lyricist Hafis, translated by the Austrian orientalist Josef von Hamer. Although Goethe was relatively well acquainted with the oriental world, from an early age, although he admired the prophet Muhammad all his life, and considered the Koran to be the most important document of human history after the Bible, the encounter with Hafiz's poetry was something special: it marked a new era in Goethe's life and creativity.
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