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It is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the translation of Faust, in the original metres. At that time, 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 English 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 of the translator

Faust | Project Gutenberg *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14591 *** FAUST by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY Harry Clarke TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY Bayard Taylor An Illustrated Edition THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND, OHIO NEW YORK, N.Y. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS PREFACE AN GOETHE DEDICATION PRELUDE AT THE THEATRE PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN FAUST 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 VII. A STRE

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