{"product_id":"9780856462740","title":"Roman Elegies: And Other Poems \u0026 Epigrams","description":"\u003cbr\u003eJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is mainly known to the English-speaking world as the author of the poetic drama \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e. In Europe - as poet, dramatist, novelist, art critic, literary theoretician, travel writer, author of a treatise on light and colour, and prolific correspondent - he is regarded as the supreme Romantic literary figure.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis selection is a classic introduction to one of the giants of European literature. It collects all the beautifully crafted versions Michael Hamburger has made over many years from all periods of Goethe's creative life, adding more than twenty new poems to \u003ci\u003ePoems and Epigrams \u003c\/i\u003e(1983), and including the complete text of Goethe's erotic masterpiece, the \u003ci\u003eRoman Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e. The critical introduction provides a valuable account of a writer who was, in the words of his translator, so many-sided as to constitute a whole literature'.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMichael Hamburger is a poet and critic and the outstanding contemporary translator of German poetry into English. His many awards include the \u003ci\u003eSchlegel-Tieck Prize\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), the \u003ci\u003eGerman Federal Republic's Goethe Medal\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and the \u003ci\u003eEuropean Translation Prize\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). Michael Hamburger's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1941-1994\u003c\/i\u003e is also published by Anvil, as are his selections from the poetry of Hölderlin, Rilke and Celan, and his seminal critical work on modern poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018453958896,"sku":"9780856462740","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856462740_p0.jpg?v=1763814960","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856462740","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}