The Dance of Death

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The Dance of Death

Poet(s)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Credits

Translator

Aytoun, William Edmonstoune

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 57:352, 167–168, February 1845.

First line

The warder look’d down at the depth of night

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. III (165-80), by William Edmonstoune Aytoun (Wellesley Index) (SP). Translator attribution: Wellesley Index (AC).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10910

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Dance of Death