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Translation of two of Goethe's erotic works, which are rarely included in German editions. The introduction examines Goethe's erotic poetry in his overall development and in relation to other European poetry of the genre.
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• Römische Elegien = Roman elegies
• Aus den Venezianischen Epigrammen = From the Venetian epigrams
• Das Tagebuch = The diary.

`a world without love would be no world' Elegy II This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1790. Editorial censorship has long obscured the true form and content of the Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his unofficial wife on his return to Germany.They are here presented as Goethe boldly conceived them together with the long-surpressed narrative poem known as The Diary . Superficially the story of a failed sexual adventure by a man of 60, at another level this is a profound study of the psychology of desire and the nature of fidelity, as well as being one of the most beautiful and good-humoured poems in the German language. Completing the edition is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. David Luke's translations do full justice to Goethe's aim of liberating German poetry and restoring sexual love to its central position in human life. Hans Vaget's fine introduction provides the background to these poems, as well as showing some of the profound and little-known connections between them. Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in 1749, the son of a well-to-do citizen of Frankfurt. This book is intended for german literature; Goethe; Weimar Classicism; courses on love poetry.
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• Tragedy of Faust: Dedication
• Prologue for the theatre
• Prologue in heaven
• Part I
• Tragical history of doctor Faustus
• Egmont
• Hermann and Dorothea: Calliope
• Terpsichore
• Thalia
• Euterpe
• Polyhymnia
• Clio
• Erato
• Melpomene
• Urania.

• INTRODUCTION xi FAUST: A Tragedy DEDICATION 1 PRELUDE ON THE STAGE 3 PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN 9 PART ONE NIGHT (Faust's Study I: Easter Eve) 13 OUTSIDE THE CITY GATE (Easter-Day Walk) 23 FAUST'S STUDY (II: Easter Night) 32 FAUST'S STUDY (III: Pact and Student Scene) 40 AUERBACHS WINE-CELLAR IN LEIPZIG 53 WITCH'S KITCHEN (Rejuvenation) 60 A STREET (I: Margarete Accosted) 67 EVENING (Margarete's Room I) 69 PROMENADE (Street II: Mephistopheles' Report) 72 THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE (The Story of Schwerdtlein) 73 A STREET (III: False Witness) 77 (Martha's) GARDEN (I: Promenading Couples) 79 A SUMMERHOUSE (Martha's Garden II) 82 FOREST AND CAVE (Faust's Conscience) 83 GRETCHEN'S ROOM (II: Margarete at Her Spinning Wheel) 87 MARTHA'S GARDEN (III: Faust's Credo) 88 AT THE WELL (Gretchen and Lieschen) 91 BY THE RAMPARTS (Gretchen's Prayer) 92 NIGHT (Street IV: Valentine's Death) 93 CATHEDRAL (Mass, with Organ and Choir) 97 WALPURGIS NIGHT (Faust on the Brocken) 99 WALPURGIS NIGHT'S DREAM (Intermezzo) 108 AN EXPANSE OF OPEN COUNTRY (Faust's Rage) 112 NIGHT: OPEN FIELDS (The Gibbet) 114 PRISON (Margarete's Death) 114 PART TWO, in Five Acts Act I A PLEASANT LANDSCAPE (Faust's Recovery) 121 AN IMPERIAL PALACE THE THRONE ROOM (Council of State) 124 A GREAT HALL (Masquerade and Faust's Masque) 132 A GARDEN (Benefits of Paper Money) 154 A DARK GALLERY (The Mothers) 158 BRIGHTLY LI T ROOMS (Waiting for Faust) 162 KNIGHTS' HALL (The Rape of Helen) 163 Act II A HIGH-VAULTED, NARROW GOTHIC ROOM (Faust's Study IV) 169 LABORATORY (Creation of Homunculus) 175 CLASSICAL WALPURGIS NIGHT 180 The Pharsalian Fields 180 (Erichtho and the Aeronauts 180 * By the Sphinxes 181 * Peneus and Nymphs 186 * Faust, Chiron, and Manto 187 * Again by the Upper Peneus: Seismos' Mountain 191 * Mephistopheles and the Lamiae 196 * Anaxagoras, Thales, and Homunculus 200 * The Phorcides 202) Rocky Inlets of the Aegean Sea 204 (Nereus 206 * Proteus 209 * Galatea 214 * Homunculus merges with the sea 215) Act III (Helen: Classico-Romantic Phantasmagoria. An Intermezzo) BEFORE MENELAUS' PALACE AT SPARTA (Helen's Flight) 216 INNER COURTYARD OF A CASTLE (The Wooing and Defense of Helen) 231 A SHADED GROVE (The Life and Death of Euphorion) 241 Act IV HIGH MOUNTAINS 254 (Margarete Remembered 254 * Faust's Great Plan 256 * The Emperor in Danger 258 * Mephistopheles' Three Mighty Men 260) ON A FOOTHILL (Defeat of the Anti-Emperor) 261 THE ANTI-EMPEROR'S TENT (Rewards of Victory) 272 Act V A BROAD LANDSCAPE (Baucis and Philemon) 279 FAUST'S PALACE BEFORE THE PALACE 281 (Faust's Discontent 281 * The Destruction of Baucis, Philemon and Their Guest 285) FAUST ON THE BALCONY 286 (Mephistopheles' Report 286 * Four Gray Women in the Courtyard 287) WITHIN THE PALACE (Care, and the Blinding of Faust) 288 THE LARGE OUTER COURTYARD 290 (Faust's Death and Interment 292 * Mephistopheles Defeated 295) MOUNTAIN GORGES (Faust's Vision of Heaven and His Reunion with Margarete) 299 Chronology of the Composition of Faust 306 Goethe's Faust and the Present Translation 307 Bibliographical Note 314 Explanatory Notes 315.
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One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe's own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic, cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress. Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins's translation presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of Faust in all its richness and beauty, without recourse to archaisms or interpretive elaborations. Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this Princeton Classics edition of Faust is the definitive English version of a timeless masterpiece.
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• FROM MY LIFE: POETRY AND TRUTH, PART FOUR 519 Book Sixteen 522 Book Seventeen 535 Book Eighteen 555 Book Nineteen 576 Book Twenty 594 CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE
• 1792. SIEGE OF MAINZ 607 Introduction 609 Campaign in France 1792 618 Siege of Mainz 749 NOTES 777 From My Life: Poetry and Truth 779 Part Four 779 Campaign in France 1792 784 Siege of Mainz 798.
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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 contains his recollections of his childhood, his education and the creation and reception of his early works.
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Campaign in France 1792 -Siege of Mainz, Goethe's narrative of the unsuccessful campaign and the siege, has become a classic text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary period. A product of recollection, historical hindsight, and considerable study of other published sources, it is a fascinating document of the military catastrophe exposing the decline of Prussian power since the death of Frederick II, which eventually culminated in Napoleon's devastating 1806 victory at Jena and Auerstedt.
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• [1] Poetry and truth, parts one to three / translated by Robert R. Heitner
• [2] Poetry and truth, part four ; Campaign in France 1792 ; Siege of Mainz / translated by Thomas P. Saine.

• -1. Bd. Die Leiden des jungen Werther. Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten. Die Wahlverwandtschaften. Novelle
• 2. Textkritisch durchgeseben und kommentiert von Erich Trunz.

• The wayward lover.-- The fellow-culprits.-- Goetz von Berlichingen.-- Clavigo.-- Egmont.-- Torquato Tasso.-- Iphigenia in Tauris.

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante's Inferno and Shakespeare's Hamlet. This is the first new translation into English since David Constantine's 2005 version. Why another translation when there are several currently in print? To invoke Goethe's own authority when speaking of his favorite author, Shakespeare, Goethe asserts that so much has already been said about the poet-dramatist 'that it would seem there's nothing left to say, ' but adds, 'yet it is the peculiar attribute of the spirit that it constantly motivates the spirit.' Goethe's great dramatic poem continues to speak to us in new ways as we and our world continually change, and thus a new or updated translation is always necessary to bring to light Faust's almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power. Eugene Stelzig's new translation renders the text of the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary undergraduate audience while at the same time maintaining its leading poetic features, including the use of rhyme.
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• [vol. 1]. Faust : Eine Tragödie : Konstituierter Text / bearbeitet von Gerrit Brüning und Dietmar Pravida
• [vol. 2]. Gesammthandschrift Faksimile
• [vol. 3]. Gesammthandschrift Transkription / bearbeitet von Gerrit Brüning, Katrin Henzel, Dietmar Pravida und Dietrich Renken, Thorsten Vitt, Moritz Wissenbach.

• Faust : eine Tragödie
• Zueignung
• Vorspiel auf dem Theater
• Prolog im Himmel
• Der Tragödie erster Teil
• Walpurgisnachtstraum
• Der Tragödie zweiter Teil
• Erster Akt
• Zweiter Akt
• Dritter Akt
• Vierter Akt
• Fünfter Akt
• Anhang
• Geleitwort zur historisch-kritischen Faustedition
• Editorischer Bericht
• Titel
• Grundsätze der Textbehandlung
• Überlieferung und Druckgeschichte
• Textherstellung
• Klassifikation der Textentscheidungen
• Apparat
• Zusätzliche Lesarten
• Typographische Einrichtung
• Erläuterungen zu einzelnen Stellen
• Liste der Textentscheidungen
• Vergleich mit anderen Ausgaben
• Siglen und Abkürzungen
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Dank.

• Faksimileband
• Faust : Zweiter Teil
• Der Tragödie zweiter Teil
• Erster Akt
• Zweiter Akt
• Dritter Akt
• Vierter Akt
• Fünfter Akt
• Transkriptionsband
• Transkription
• Faust : Zweiter Teil
• Der Tragödie zweiter Teil
• Erster Akt
• Zweiter Akt
• Dritter Akt
• Vierter Akt
• Fünfter Akt
• Anhang
• Geleitwort zur historisch-kritischen Faustedition
• Zur Einführung
• Editorischer Bericht
• Beschreibung der Gesamthandschrift
• Gestaltung des Faksimiles
• Richtlinien der Transkription
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Dank.

• Acknowledgments
• Translators' Introduction
• Stella : A Play for Lovers (1776)
• Bibliography
• Appendix.

• Introduction vii Chronology of Goethe's Life and Times xxxiii Selected Poems 1 Egmont 41 Translated by Michael Hamburger Iphigenia in Tauris 107 Translated by David Luke Torquato Tasso 163 Translated by Michael Hamburger Faust. A Tragedy 249 Translated by John R. Williams Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 371 Italian Journey: Part One 751 On Literature and Art 867 On German Architecture (1772) 867 Shakespeare: A Tribute (1771) 872 Simple Imitation, Manner, Style (1789) 875 Response to a Literary Rabble-Rouser (1795) 878 Winckelmann and His Age (1805) 881 Myron's Cow (1818) 903 On World Literature 908 On Philosophy and Science 913 On Granite (1784) 913 A Study Based on Spinoza (c. 1785) 916 The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) 917 Toward a General Comparative Theory (1790-94) 937 The Experiment as Mediator between Subject and Object (1792) 940 The Extent to Which the Idea "Beauty Is Perfection in Combination with Freedom" May Be Applied to Living Organisms (c. 1794) 947 Observation on Morphology in General (c. 1795) 948 Polarity (c. 1799) 951 From Theory of Color (1791-1807) 952 Part Five: Relationship to Other Fields 952 Part Six: Sensory-Moral Effect of Color 960 From On Morphology (1807-17) 977 The Enterprise Justified 977 The Purpose Set Forth 978 The Content Prefaced 981 The Influence of Modern Philosophy (1817) 983 Colors in the Sky (1817-20) 986 Problems (1823) 987 Excerpt from "Toward a Theory of Weather" (1825) 988 Analysis and Synthesis (c. 1829) 993 A More Intense Chemical Activity in Primordial Matter (1826) 995 Excerpt from "The Spiral Tendency in Vegetation" (1829-31) 995 Selections from Maxims and Reflections 998.
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The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe's work as playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully represented. In addition to the works for which he is most famous, including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features important literary works that are rarely published in English--including the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a foundational work in the history of the novel. The volume also offers a selection of Goethe's essays on the arts, philosophy, and science, which give access to the thought of a polymath unrivalled in the modern world. Primarily drawn from Princeton's authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, the translations are highly readable and reliable modern versions by scholars of Goethe. The volume also features an extensive introduction to Goethe's life and works by volume editor Matthew Bell. Includes: * Selected poems* Four complete dramas: Faust Part I, Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso* The complete novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship* A selection from the travel journal Italian Journey* Selected essays on art and literature* Selected essays on philosophy and science* An extensive introduction to Goethe's life and works* A chronology of Goethe's life and times* A note on the texts and translations.
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• Fairest faust
• A new translation of Goethe's Faust
• Preface
• Introduction
• Dedication
• Prelude in the theater
• Prologue in heaven
• First part of the tragedy
• The second part of the tragedy in five acts.

"A poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist, and aphorist, Goethe was the German equivalent of Dante plus Shakespeare, a multifaceted universal genius. He put everything he had into this version of the famous myth of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil for worldly fame and riches. People face such choices every day - in this volume, Prof. Thomas Wayne presents the story in a contemporary voice."-- Provided by publisher.

"A poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist, and aphorist, Goethe was the German equivalent of Dante plus Shakespeare, a multifaceted universal genius. He put everything he had into this version of the famous myth of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil for worldly fame and riches. People face such choices every day - in this volume, Prof. Thomas Wayne presents the story in a contemporary voice."-- Provided by publisher.

"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist. In the second polemic part of Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours), for example, Goethe attacked Isaac Newton's ground-breaking revelation that light is heterogeneous and not immutable, as was previously thought. This polemic was unanimously rejected by the physicists of the day, and has often been omitted from compendia of Goethe's works. Indeed, although Goethe repeated all of Newton's key experiments, he was never able to achieve the same results. Many reasons have been proposed for this, ranging from the psychological — such as a blind hatred of Newtonism, self-deceit and paranoid psychosis — to accusations of incapability — Goethe simply did not understand the experiments. Yet Goethe was never to be dissuaded from this passionate conviction. This translation of Goethe's second polemic, published for the first time in English, makes it clear that Goethe did understand the thrust of Newton's logic. It demonstrates that Goethe's resistance to Newton's theory stemmed from something quite different; his pantheism — the belief in the spiritual nature of light. This prevented him from allowing himself to think of light in physical terms and accepting that it is anything other than simple, immutable, and unknowable. This important new translation will be useful to natural scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians alike and will delight anyone hoping to add a further layer of nuance to Goethe's complex portrait."--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction vii Chronology of Goethe's Life and Times xxxiii Selected Poems 1 Egmont 41 Translated by Michael Hamburger Iphigenia in Tauris 107 Translated by David Luke Torquato Tasso 163 Translated by Michael Hamburger Faust. A Tragedy 249 Translated by John R. Williams Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 371 Italian Journey: Part One 751 On Literature and Art 867 On German Architecture (1772) 867 Shakespeare: A Tribute (1771) 872 Simple Imitation, Manner, Style (1789) 875 Response to a Literary Rabble-Rouser (1795) 878 Winckelmann and His Age (1805) 881 Myron's Cow (1818) 903 On World Literature 908 On Philosophy and Science 913 On Granite (1784) 913 A Study Based on Spinoza (c. 1785) 916 The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) 917 Toward a General Comparative Theory (1790-94) 937 The Experiment as Mediator between Subject and Object (1792) 940 The Extent to Which the Idea "Beauty Is Perfection in Combination with Freedom" May Be Applied to Living Organisms (c. 1794) 947 Observation on Morphology in General (c. 1795) 948 Polarity (c. 1799) 951 From Theory of Color (1791-1807) 952 Part Five: Relationship to Other Fields 952 Part Six: Sensory-Moral Effect of Color 960 From On Morphology (1807-17) 977 The Enterprise Justified 977 The Purpose Set Forth 978 The Content Prefaced 981 The Influence of Modern Philosophy (1817) 983 Colors in the Sky (1817-20) 986 Problems (1823) 987 Excerpt from "Toward a Theory of Weather" (1825) 988 Analysis and Synthesis (c. 1829) 993 A More Intense Chemical Activity in Primordial Matter (1826) 995 Excerpt from "The Spiral Tendency in Vegetation" (1829-31) 995 Selections from Maxims and Reflections 998.
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The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe's work as playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully represented. In addition to the works for which he is most famous, including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features important literary works that are rarely published in English--including the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a foundational work in the history of the novel. The volume also offers a selection of Goethe's essays on the arts, philosophy, and science, which give access to the thought of a polymath unrivalled in the modern world. Primarily drawn from Princeton's authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, the translations are highly readable and reliable modern versions by scholars of Goethe. The volume also features an extensive introduction to Goethe's life and works by volume editor Matthew Bell. Includes: * Selected poems* Four complete dramas: Faust Part I, Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso* The complete novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship* A selection from the travel journal Italian Journey* Selected essays on art and literature* Selected essays on philosophy and science* An extensive introduction to Goethe's life and works* A chronology of Goethe's life and times* A note on the texts and translations.
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• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Copyright
• Goethe's Life and Work
• I LOVE AND SOLITUDE
• To Sleep
• By the Riverside
• May Song
• Hail and Farewell
• The King in Thule
• Bonding Song
• Autumnal Feeling
• The Hunter's Evening Song
• The Wanderer's Night Song (I)
• Restless Love
• To the Moon
• The Elf-King
• Night Thoughts
• The Harpist (I)
• The Harpist (II)
• The Harpist (III)
• Ballad of the Harpist
• Mignon (I)
• Mignon (II)
• Mignon (III)
• The Spinster
• My Love Is Near
• The Coy Shepherdess
• The Shepherd
• The Repentant Shepherdess
• The Mountain Castle
• Your Presence
• The Lost Ring
• West Wind
• The Presence of the Past
• A Phenomenon
• The Chestnut Tree
• Behramgur
• Gingko Biloba
• Suleika
• The Bridegroom
• To the Rising Full Moon
• II GODS AND HUMANS
• A Song about Mohammed
• Prometheus
• Ganymede
• The Feeling of Humanity
• Winter Journey in the Harz Mountains
• Song of the Spirits above the Waters
• Human Limits
• The Divine
• The Song of the Fates
• Permanence within Change
• Longing
• Memorial
• Prooemion
• Orphic Words
• Symbolum
• Antepirrhema
• Talismans
• The Wanderer's Equanimity
• Saint Nepomuk's Eve
• One and All
• Spirit Hovering over the Earth
• All of the stars
• When, in infinity
• Legacy
• From Faust, Part Two, Final Scene
• III NATURE AND ART
• Artist's Evening Song
• On the Lake
• Hope
• My Goddess
• The Wanderer's Night Song (II)
• Anacreon's Grave
• Flat Calm
• Fortunate Voyage
• Into the Distance
• Nature and Art
• The Sonnet
• Humility
• Song and Form
• Unlimited
• Epirrhema
• Parabasis
• Schiller's Remains
• Twilight
• At Night
• Always and Everywhere
• I like full rhyme
• Once you are clear
• Our earnest efforts
• Something is speaking
• Poems are like stained-glass windows
• IV WIT AND WISDOM
• Originality.

• Among the princes of Germany
• I cannot divide my life
• Ownership
• The demagogue
• The powerful
• "Aren't we right to deceive the people?
• Princes often imprint
• A student told me
• When I heard them yelling
• They really annoy me
• Someone said
• Art, Science, Religion
• We all see God
• Whoever serves the public
• Age
• The Years
• Rumi Speaks
• "Tell me how you live."
• Who is happiest?
• Time spent looking for cures
• Every event
• So, what do you consider sin?
• You cannot cure your oddities
• Always strive for the whole
• Regardless of age
• No one likes giving
• Worries
• You ask if I mean all I say
• "Whom should we believe?"
• If you play at life
• Zeus, why
• Forget about transiency
• Do you know how to find the joy of life?
• Yes, you're on the right track
• You want the comfort of certainty!
• Let no one resemble another
• Rulers and common people
• Every life is worth living
• Guidelines for Life
• Notes on Proper Names and Greek Titles
• About the translator
• PRAISE FOR GRAHAM GOOD'S RILKE'S LATE POETRY
• Back Cover.

Why read Goethe's poetry today? Ours is an age which prizes both individual self-development and cultural diversity. Goethe (1749-1832) was the first major poet to show how these two values could be combined. Goethe, who coined the term "world literature, " explored a wide variety of subject matter, from love and creativity, to nature and religion. For Goethe life is a process with no final answers: "All meaning is only asking." This selection of Goethe's poetry aims to represent its formal and thematic variety in readable verse translations.

A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles-dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written translation of Goethe's masterpiece available in English. At last, the Greenberg Faust is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface, and notes. "Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original text; I found it a joy to read."-Irving Howe (on the earlier edition).
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• Introduction by Martin Swales-- translation of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris-- end-notes.
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This drama in blank verse, first published in 1787, the first important work of Goethe's Classical period, stands the Iphigenia-Orestes story as treated by Aeschylus, Euripides and Racine on its head. In Goethe's drama Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War, in exile as a priestess in the barbaric land of the Tauri (Crimea), breaks the Tantalid family curse. By her own unaided human efforts she saves the life of her brother Orestes who has murdered their mother because she murdered their father; at the same time she enables him to expiate his crime. The female identity of the central character is all-important. It is uniquely her voice, against all the other voices which are male, that brings resolution - not by preaching values but by the visceral force of belief in the rightness of the language of the heart. This translation by Roy Pascal, made in 1954 and broadcast in two separate BBC radio productions, is published for the first time. Martin Swales writes in his Introduction: 'Goethe's Iphigenia is one of the most perfect poetic dramas that the moral culture of Western Europe has produced - Few works can have such purchase on our contemporary concerns. The endless bloodletting of the play's prehistory, the desperate cycle of outrage followed by acts of retribution that fuel the flames; the play's understanding of the notion of sacrifice that conjoins the sacred and the violent into a poisonous brew - all these preoccupations speak with incomparable urgency to us today ...Roy Pascal's translation is a matchless example of German poetry rendered into English by a master.'.
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• Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Egmont. Ein Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen
• Anhang: Friedrich Schiller, Über Egmont, Trauerspiel von Goethe
• Kommentar: Zeittafel
• Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte
• Deutungsaspekte
• Literaturhinweise
• Wort- und Sacherläuterungen.

Faust occupies a central place in German literature, as the magnum opus of its greatest writer, as one of its greatest dramas, and as an epic poem of the highest quality-for, although it was written to be performed, it may also be regarded as a dramatic poem, prophetic perhaps of Berlioz's hybrid musical adaptation in La Damnation de Faust. The Faust story caught Goethe's attention from an early stage and the first published results of his engagement with it was Faust. A Fragment, published in 1790. He had however written a dramatic treatment of the story in his 20s, a fact which only became apparent over a century later, when the papers of Luisa von Gochhausen, a lady of the court of Weimar, were found to contain a transcription of this work, since known as the Urfaust (Original Faust). This early work was published in 1887. Faust. A Tragedy, Part One was finally completed in 1808 and was later revised and published in a new edition in 1829. The third act of Part 2 appeared in 1827, part of the first act a year later, and the complete text in 1832, shortly after the author's death. The entirety of Faust, parts 1 and 2 together, was performed for the first time in 1875, in Weimar. The translation presented in this volume encompasses only Part One, which is usually performed without its cerebral pendant piece, and remains the keystone of Goethe's career.
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'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl who is promised to someone else. Overwhelmed by his feelings, Werther begins to see only one way to escape from his anguish. Goethe's story of a sensitive young artist alienated from society channelled the Romantic sensibility of the day and led to a wave of imitations. Werther's searching introspection and the passionate intensity with which he bares his soul have an immediacy that is all the more powerful for being expressed in letters; charting the course of his emotions, they give added drama to the unfolding account. David Constantine's new translation captures the novel's lyric clarity, and his introduction and notes illuminate Goethe's achievement. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new translation. Goethe's themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1774. His hugely influential novel informed the writing of, among others, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann. In translating The Sufferings of Young Werther, Corngold follows the German text closely, never knowingly using a word that was not current in English at the time the novel was written and yet maintaining a modern grace and flair. The result is an eagerly awaited translation that speaks to our time through the astonishing liveliness of Goethe's language-as well through the translator's own.
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The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Greece, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives...
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• The madwoman on a pilgrimage
• Who is the traitor?
• Not too far!

The 'madwoman' of the title is highly sought after - in fact a man's passion for her is shared, rather inconveniently, by his son, as both declare themselves her suitors. Her 'pilgrimage' is to relinquish their hold on her, which she does by implying a certain - rather indelicate - state of affairs. Her ploy works, and the resultant chaos and confusion for father and son create a brilliantly comic ending. "The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage" is accompanied by "Who is the Betrayer?", in which a man's nocturnal monologues reveal rather more than he would wish, and a third tale where, again, erotic infidelity and inadvertent revelation go hand in hand.
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• Teilbd.
• 1. Texte und Kommentar 1
• Teilbd.
• 2. Kommentar 2.

In this sequel to "Faust", Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks'. Further to the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama, are Goethe's eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.
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Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs. The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis-"the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms"-from the root and stem leaves to the calyx and corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this short book-123 numbered paragraphs, in the manner of the great botanist Linnaeus-Goethe aimed to tell the story of botanical forms in process, to present, in effect, a motion picture of the metamorphosis of plants. This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings. It is the most completely and colorfully illustrated edition of Goethe's book ever published. It demonstrates vividly Goethe's ideas of transformation and interdependence, as well as the systematic use of imagination in scientific research-which influenced thinkers ranging from Darwin to Thoreau and has much to teach us today about our relationship with nature.
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Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs. The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis-"the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms"-from the root and stem leaves to the calyx and corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this short book-123 numbered paragraphs, in the manner of the great botanist Linnaeus-Goethe aimed to tell the story of botanical forms in process, to present, in effect, a motion picture of the metamorphosis of plants. This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings. It is the most completely and colorfully illustrated edition of Goethe's book ever published. It demonstrates vividly Goethe's ideas of transformation and interdependence, as well as the systematic use of imagination in scientific research-which influenced thinkers ranging from Darwin to Thoreau and has much to teach us today about our relationship with nature.
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• Bd.1:pt.1. 23 Mai 1764 - 30 Dezember 1772, Text
• Bd.1:pt.2. 23 Mai 1764 - 30 Dezember 1772, Kommentar.

• Bd.
• 1.
• 23. Mai 1764-30. Dezember 1772 / hrsg. von Elke Richter und Georg Kurscheidt. [pt. 1]. Texte. [pt. 2]. Kommentar.
• Bd.
• 2. Anfang 1773 - Ende Oktober 1775 / hrsg. von Georg Kurscheidt und Elke Richter. [pt. 1]. Texte. [pt. 2]. Kommentar
• Bd. 3:pt.1.
• 8. November 1775 - Ende 1779, Text. pt.2A.
• 8. November 1775 - Ende 1777, Kommentar. pt.2B.
• 1. Januar 1778 - Ende 1779, Kommentar
• Bd.
• 6. [pt. 1]. Texte [pt. 2] Kommentar
• Bd.
• 7.
• 18. September 1786 -
• 10. Juni
• 1788. [pt. 1]. Texte [pt. 2] Kommentar
• Bd. 8.1.
• 20. Juni 1788-Ende 1790 : Texte
• Bd. 8.2.
• 20. Juni 1788-Ende 1790 : Kommentar / herausgegeben von Volker Giel und Norbert Oellers unter Mitarbeit von Gerhard Müller und Yvonne Pietsch
• Bd. 9.1. 1791-1793 : Texte / herausgegeben von Volker Giel und Norbert Oellers unter Mitarbeit von Yvonne Pietsch. Bd. 9.2. 1791-1793 : Kommentar / herausgegeben von Volker Giel und Norbert Oellers unter Mitarbeit von Gerhard Müller und Yvonne Pietsch
• Bd. 10.1. 1794-1795 : Texte. Bd. 10.2. 1794-1795 : Kommentar / herausgegeben von Jutta Eckle und Georg Kurscheidt.

• Introduction--
• 1. The Faustus of Goethe, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Boosey, 1821). With the 27 illustrations by Moritz Retzsch, re-engraved by Henry Moses--
• 2. Germaine de Stael, Germany [= de l'Allemagne, 1809], translated by Francis Hodgson, edited by William Lamb (London: John Murray, 1813). Part II 'On Literature and the Arts', Ch. 23, 'Faustus', pp. 181-226--
• 3. Extracts from Gothe's Tragedy of Faustus, explanatory of the plates by Retsch, translated by George Soane (London: Bohte, 1820). [January 1820] Page proofs for Bohte's planned second edition, translated by George Soane. [Sent to London Magazine, Nov 1821-- to Goethe June 1822]--
• 4. Retsch's Series of Twenty-six Outlines Illustrative of Goethe's Tragedy of Faust, translated by Daniel Boileau (London: Boosey, 1820). [June 1820], with Boileau's notes to Abraham Hayward's prose translation--
• 5. 'The Faustus of Goethe', translated by John Anster, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol.
• 7. no. 39 (June 1820), 235-258--
• 6. Faust: a Drama by Goethe-- and, Schiller's Song of the Bell, translated by Lord Francis Leveson Gower. (London: John Murray, 1823). [corresponding text only]-- Stylometric Analysis of the Faust Translations,
• Chronology-- Bibliography-- Index.
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The major work of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1808), was translated into English by one of Britain's most capable mediators of German literature and philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Goethe himself twice referred to Coleridge's translation of his Faust. Goethe's character wrestles with the very metaphysical and theological problems that preoccupied Coleridge: the meaning of the Logos, the apparent opposition of theism and pantheism. Coleridge, the poet of tormented guilt, of the demonic and the supernatural, found himself on familiar ground in translating Faust. Because his translation reveals revisions and reworkings of Coleridge's earlier works, his Faust contributes significantly to the understanding of Coleridge's entire oeuvre. Coleridge began, but soon abandoned, the translation in 1814, returning to the task in 1820. At Coleridge's own insistence, it was published anonymously in 1821, illustrated with 27 line engravings copied by Henry Moses after the original plates by Moritz Retzsch. His publisher, Thomas Boosey, brought out another edition in 1824.Although several critics recognized that it was Coleridge's work, his role as translator was obscured because of its anonymous publication. Coleridge himself declared that he 'never put pen to paper as translator of Faust', and subsequent generations mistakenly attributed the translation to George Soane, a minor playwright, who had actually commenced translating for a rival press. This edition of Coleridge's translation provides the textual and documentary evidence of his authorship, and presents his work in the context of other contemporary efforts at translating Goethe's Faust.
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Premiered at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum theatre, this translation presents both parts of Goethe's lifelong masterpiece.
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Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe's great work the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a life beyond his study and in rejuvenated form winning the love of the charming and beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire and self-delusion, Faust, served by the devil, heads inexorably towards destruction.
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• Bd. 1. Text
• Bd. 2. Kommentar und Register.

• Foreword by A.S. Byatt-- Introduction-- The Man of Fifty-- Notes-- Biographical note.
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Arriving at the family manor, the Major scarcely recognises his tall and elegant niece as she rushes out to greet him. Surprise soon turns to satisfaction as he learns that she has confessed to being in love with him - and he a fifty-year-old man! Instantly turning his attention to his appearance, he determines to transform himself into a suitable lover for a young girl. But he must also make a confession to his son, to whom his niece was originally promised. Rather conveniently, however, his son has also succumbed to love - and with an older woman. All would seem to be well - until the new-look Major meets his son's paramour...'The Man of Fifty moves because of its very sparseness - combined with a boldness and clarity of selected incidents that are simultaneously plainly factual and symbolic' - from the Foreword by A.S. Byatt.
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This edition includes both part I and II of the drama. It represents a significant departure from its predecessor in terms of supporting apparatus and the "Interpretative Notes" have been expanded. "Contexts" includes five new selections by Goethe on the composition of the novel. "Criticism" includes commentary by 11 of his contemporaries. "Modern Criticism" has been recast to include ten new essays.
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