Martin Bidney is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. His books include Blake and Goethe, Patterns of Epiphany, A Poetic Dialogue with Adam Mickiewicz, and East-West Poetry.
"Bidney's translations of the ... Divan poems ... render, for the first time, both form and content in a way that is faithful to the original. The poetical commentaries authored by ... Bidney are of a stunning originality and ... are composed entirely in the spirit of Goethe's own conception of world literature as a deeply felt interchange among peoples and cultures. I recommend this book most emphatically and with highest praise, in the hope that after nearly two hundred years it will help Goethe's West-East Divan to make the breakthrough it deserves in the English-speaking world." - Katharina Mommsen "Bidney's Introduction ... correctly indicates that Goethe [offers] 'one of the most notable and far-reaching visions of East-West understanding achieved in modern times ...' [This] 'englishing' of the Divan [is] a pleasure to read." - Khalil Semaan
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