The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (Classic Reprint)

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Faustus is therefore a parable of the impotent yearnings of the Middle Ages its passionate aspiration, its conscience-stricken desire, its fettered curiosity amid the cramping limits of imperfect knowledge, and irrational dogmatism. The indestructible beauty of Greek art, whereof Helen was the emblem, became, through the discovery of classic poetry and sculpture, the possession of the modern world. Medievalism took this Helen to wife, and their offspring, the Euphorion of Goethes drama, is the spirit of the modern world. J.A. Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, ii. p.54.

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