Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Faust, by GoetheThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: FaustAuthor: GoetheRelease Date: December 25, 2004 [EBook #14460]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAUST ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Bidwell and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading TeamFAUSTA TRAGEDYTRANSLATED FROM THE GERMANOFGOETHEWITH NOTESBYCHARLES T BROOKSSEVENTH EDITION.BOSTON TICKNOR AND FIELDSMDCCCLXVIII.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by CHARLES T. BROOKS, In the Clerk's Office of the DistrictCourt of the District of Rhode Island.UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE.TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least,who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering another translation to the public, of a poemwhich has been already translated, not only in a literal prose form, but also, twenty or thirty times, in metre, andsometimes with great spirit, beauty, and power.The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact andever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so ...