Audio: Goethe's West-eastern Divan
Listen as actor Helen Morse reads an excerpt from Goethe’s West-eastern Divan, translated from the German by Edward Dowden.
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Listen as actor Helen Morse reads an excerpt from Goethe’s West-eastern Divan, translated from the German by Edward Dowden.
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