# Selected Poetry

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- Book: [Selected Poetry](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/selected-poetry) ([Selected Poetry.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/selected-poetry.md))
- Authors: [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4042-456-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2005-04-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose translation which has been in print continously since then (life sales 43,000).