Die Marienbader Elegie / The Marienbad Elegy (Parallel Text)

This edition features:
• New English translations
• Parallel German and English texts
• Translator's Notes

This is considered by many to be Goethe's greatest poem, certainly the most intimately personal, a lover's passionate lament. It is given here in full, together with Stefan Zweig's brilliant essay explaining the circumstances leading to, and the consequences flowing from, its composition during a journey by carriage in the late summer of 1823.

Our unique parallel text presents the original German on the left page, the English translation on the right, with sentences and paragraphs aligned for easy reading and reference. Parallel texts of this kind are a very valuable learning resource, as they make the foreign language content immediately comprehensible.