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Goethe's "Totentanz" for Halloween

Thursday October 25, 2007
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Dance of Death" poem is a good way to discover the joys of reading Goethe's verse—and it fits the "spirit" of Halloween! Our dual-language presentation also makes it easy to understand Goethe's poem in the original German. You can read each verse in side-by-side German and English verse (translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring). Discover Goethe and enjoy Halloween at the same time!

More Halloween 1: Halloween Songs in German
More Halloween 2: Graveyard Tour Project

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