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PREFACEAN GOETHEDEDICATIONPRELUDE AT THE THEATREPROLOGUE IN HEAVENSCENE I. NIGHT (_Faust's Monologue_) II. BEFORE THE CITY-GATE III. THE STUDY (_The Exorcism_) IV. THE STUDY (_… Plus…

PREFACEAN GOETHEDEDICATIONPRELUDE AT THE THEATREPROLOGUE IN HEAVENSCENE 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 VII. A STREET VIII. EVENING IX. PROMENADE X. THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE XI. STREET XII. GARDEN XIII. A GARDEN-ARBOR XIV. FOREST AND CAVERN XV. MARGARET'S ROOM XVI. MARTHA'S GARDEN XVII. AT THE FOUNTAIN XVIII. DONJON (_Margaret's Prayer_) XIX. NIGHT (_Valentine's Death_) XX. CATHEDRAL XXI. WALPURGIS-NIGHT XXII. OBERON AND TITANIA'S GOLDEN WEDDING XXIII. DREARY DAY XXIV. NIGHT XXV. DUNGEON[Illustration]FAUST[Illustration][Illustration: Preface]It is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the translationof _Faust_, in the original metres. At that time, although more than ascore of English translations of the First Part, and three or four ofthe Second Part, were in existence, the experiment had not yet beenmade. The prose version of Hayward seemed to have been accepted as thestandard, in default of anything more satisfactory: the English critics,generally sustaining the translator in his views concerning thesecondary importance of form in Poetry, practically discouraged anyfurther attempt; and no one, familiar with rhythmical expression throughthe needs of his own nature, had devoted the necessary love and patienceto an adequate reproduction of the great work of Goethe's life.Mr. Brooks was the first to undertake the task, and the publication ofhis translation of the First Part (in 1856) induced me, for a time, togive up my own design. No previous English version exhibited suchabnegation of the translator's own tastes and habits of thought, suchreverent desire to present the original in its purest form. The care andconscience with which the work had been performed were so apparent, thatI now state with reluctance what then seemed to me to be its onlydeficiencies,--a lack of the lyrical fire and fluency of the original insome passages, and an occasional lowering of the tone through the use ofwords which are literal, but not equivalent. The plan of translationadopted by Mr. Brooks was so entirely my own, that when furtherresidence in Germany and a more careful study of both parts of _Faust_had satisfied me that the field was still open,--that the meansfurnished by the poetical affinity of the two languages had not yet beenexhausted,--nothing remained for me but to follow him in all essentialparticulars. His example confirmed me in the belief that there were fewdifficulties in the way of a nearly literal yet thoroughly rhythmicalversion of _Faust_, which might not be overcome by loving labor. Acomparison of seventeen English translations, in the arbitrary metresadopted by the translators, sufficiently showed the danger of allowinglicense in this respect: the white light of Goethe's thought was therebypassed through the tinted glass of other minds, and assumed the coloringof each. Moreover, the plea of selecting different metres in the hope ofproducing a similar effect is unreasonable, where the identical metresare possible. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction Literary>Fict Literary, SAP Digital >16<

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