Goethe: the Collected Works V 2: Faust I & Ii (Paper) (Goethe's Collected Works) - Softcover

Atkins, Stuart

 
9780691036564: Goethe: the Collected Works V 2: Faust I & Ii (Paper) (Goethe's Collected Works)

Synopsis

Goethe's most complex and profound work, "Faust" was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. "Faust" is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness.

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Part of an exhaustive series which provides English translations of a representative proportion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work, this volume presents 'Faust' in a completely new translation that aims to communicate the poetic variety of the composition.

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