{"product_id":"2940013346222","title":"FAUST","description":"PREFACE\u003cbr\u003eAN GOETHE\u003cbr\u003eDEDICATION\u003cbr\u003ePRELUDE AT THE THEATRE\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE IN HEAVEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCENE I. NIGHT (_Faust's Monologue_)\u003cbr\u003e     II. BEFORE THE CITY-GATE\u003cbr\u003e    III. THE STUDY (_The Exorcism_)\u003cbr\u003e     IV. THE STUDY (_The Compact_)\u003cbr\u003e      V. AUERBACH'S CELLAR\u003cbr\u003e     VI. WITCHES' KITCHEN\u003cbr\u003e    VII. A STREET\u003cbr\u003e   VIII. EVENING\u003cbr\u003e     IX. PROMENADE\u003cbr\u003e      X. THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE\u003cbr\u003e      XI. STREET\u003cbr\u003e     XII. GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e    XIII. A GARDEN-ARBOR\u003cbr\u003e     XIV. FOREST AND CAVERN\u003cbr\u003e      XV. MARGARET'S ROOM\u003cbr\u003e     XVI. MARTHA'S GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e    XVII. AT THE FOUNTAIN\u003cbr\u003e   XVIII. DONJON (_Margaret's Prayer_)\u003cbr\u003e     XIX. NIGHT (_Valentine's Death_)\u003cbr\u003e      XX. CATHEDRAL\u003cbr\u003e     XXI. WALPURGIS-NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e    XXII. OBERON AND TITANIA'S GOLDEN WEDDING\u003cbr\u003e   XXIII. DREARY DAY\u003cbr\u003e    XXIV. NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e     XXV. DUNGEON\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFAUST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Preface]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the translation\u003cbr\u003eof _Faust_, in the original metres. At that time, although more than a\u003cbr\u003escore of English translations of the First Part, and three or four of\u003cbr\u003ethe Second Part, were in existence, the experiment had not yet been\u003cbr\u003emade. The prose version of Hayward seemed to have been accepted as the\u003cbr\u003estandard, in default of anything more satisfactory: the English critics,\u003cbr\u003egenerally sustaining the translator in his views concerning the\u003cbr\u003esecondary importance of form in Poetry, practically discouraged any\u003cbr\u003efurther attempt; and no one, familiar with rhythmical expression through\u003cbr\u003ethe needs of his own nature, had devoted the necessary love and patience\u003cbr\u003eto an adequate reproduction of the great work of Goethe's life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Brooks was the first to undertake the task, and the publication of\u003cbr\u003ehis translation of the First Part (in 1856) induced me, for a time, to\u003cbr\u003egive up my own design. No previous English version exhibited such\u003cbr\u003eabnegation of the translator's own tastes and habits of thought, such\u003cbr\u003ereverent desire to present the original in its purest form. The care and\u003cbr\u003econscience with which the work had been performed were so apparent, that\u003cbr\u003eI now state with reluctance what then seemed to me to be its only\u003cbr\u003edeficiencies,--a lack of the lyrical fire and fluency of the original in\u003cbr\u003esome passages, and an occasional lowering of the tone through the use of\u003cbr\u003ewords which are literal, but not equivalent. The plan of translation\u003cbr\u003eadopted by Mr. Brooks was so entirely my own, that when further\u003cbr\u003eresidence in Germany and a more careful study of both parts of _Faust_\u003cbr\u003ehad satisfied me that the field was still open,--that the means\u003cbr\u003efurnished by the poetical affinity of the two languages had not yet been\u003cbr\u003eexhausted,--nothing remained for me but to follow him in all essential\u003cbr\u003eparticulars. His example confirmed me in the belief that there were few\u003cbr\u003edifficulties in the way of a nearly literal yet thoroughly rhythmical\u003cbr\u003eversion of _Faust_, which might not be overcome by loving labor. A\u003cbr\u003ecomparison of seventeen English translations, in the arbitrary metres\u003cbr\u003eadopted by the translators, sufficiently showed the danger of allowing\u003cbr\u003elicense in this respect: the white light of Goethe's thought was thereby\u003cbr\u003epassed through the tinted glass of other minds, and assumed the coloring\u003cbr\u003eof each. Moreover, the plea of selecting different metres in the hope of\u003cbr\u003eproducing a similar effect is unreasonable, where the identical metres\u003cbr\u003eare possible.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079378714864,"sku":"2940013346222","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013346222_p0.jpg?v=1763579650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013346222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}