Contents: The Disposition: Goethe in Weimar – The Object of Poetic Desire: Court Poetry and the Ghazal – The Present behind the Past: Hafiz in Shiraz – The Convergence: European Enlightenment and Persian Poetry – The Precondition: Hammer-Purgstall in Vienna – The Poetic Event and its Temporality: Goethe’s and Philosophy of History.