The Doleful Lay of the Noble Wife of Asan Aga

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The Doleful Lay of the Noble Wife of Asan Aga

Poet(s)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Credits

Translator

Aytoun, William Edmonstoune

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 56:345, 67–68, July 1844.

First line

What is yon so white beside the greenwood?

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

German

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned article Poems and Ballads of Goethe. No. I (54-68), by William Edmonstoune Aytoun (Wellesley Index) (SP). Translator attribution: Wellesley Index (AC).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10665

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Doleful Lay of the Noble Wife of Asan Aga