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Title: Faust

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Release Date: January 4, 2005 [EBook #14591]

Language: English

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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

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CONTENTS

PREFACE
AN GOETHE
DEDICATION
PRELUDE AT THE THEATRE
PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN

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 STREET
VIII. EVENING
IX. PROMENADE
X. THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE
XI. STREET
XII. GARDEN
XIII. A GARDEN-ARBOR
XIV. FOREST AND CAVERN
XV. MARGARET'S ROOM
XVI. MARTHA'S GARDEN
XVII. AT THE FOUNTAIN
XVIII. DONJON (_Margaret's Prayer_)
XIX. NIGHT (_Valentine's Death_)
XX. CATHEDRAL
XXI. WALPURGIS-NIGHT
XXII. OBERON AND TITANIA'S GOLDEN WEDDING
XXIII. DREARY DAY
XXIV. NIGHT
XXV. DUNGEON
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FAUST

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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