Faust (Classic Reprint)

"TFT is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the I translation of Faust, in the original metres. At that time, -i-i- although more than a score of English translations of the First Part, and three or four of the Second Part, were in existence, the experiment had not yet been made. The prose version of Hayward seemed to have been accepted as the .standard, in default of anything more satisfactory: the Eng--Iish critics, generally sustaining the translator in his views concerning the secondary importance of form in Poetry, practically discouraged any further attempt; and no one, familiar with rhythmical expression through the needs of his own nature, had devoted the necessary love and patience to an adequate reproduction of the great work of Goethe's life. Mr. Brooks was the first to undertake the task, and the publication of his translation of the First Part (in 1856) induced me, for a time, to give up my own design. No previous English version exhibited such abnegation o

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Preface ; An Goethe; Dedication; Prelude at the Theatre; Prologue in Heaven; -Scene I Night (Faust's Monologue); II Before the City-Gate ; III The Study {The Exorcism); IV The Study {The Compact) V Auerbach's Cellar ; VI Witches' Kitchen ; VTL A Street; VIII Evening; IX Promenade;