The Fairest Flower. The Lay of the Captive Earl

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The Fairest Flower. The Lay of the Captive Earl

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, 168–170, February 1845.

First line

I know a floweret passing fair

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

German

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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).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10912

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The Fairest Flower. The Lay of the Captive Earl