Goethe: Selected Poems (The Collected Works, Vol. 1) [BILINGUAL EDITION - GERMAN AND ENGLISH TEXT]

xxix, 298 pp. Bilingual edition - German and English text. This new series brings into modern English a reliable translation of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work. This edition, selected from over 140 volumes in German, is the new standard in English, and contains poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing by the man who is probably the most influential writer in the German language. The executive editors of this collection are Victor Lange of Princeton University, Eric Blackall of Cornell University, and Cyrus Hamlin of Yale University.