Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust, Parts One & Two (Oxford University Press, 1987/1994).  Edited and translated by David Luke.

Part One - ISBN: 9780199536214 | 240 pages | EPUB
Part Two - ISBN: 9780199536207 | 400 pages | EPUB


Goethe's Faust, a tragic play in two parts, is one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature.

This translation by David Luke, specially commissioned for the Oxford World's Classics series, is in rhymed verse.  It preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom.

Luke's translation of Faust, Part One, won the European Poetry Translation Prize.


Reviews

"At last! A translation of Goethe's masterpiece which reads like a masterpiece in English. David Luke conveys the meaning, intellectual passion and Byronic raciness of the original. This is a poet's as well as a scholar's version, for David Luke has written original poems of great distinction." -- Stephen Spender, Spectator

"Scrupulous and well-informed, backed up by scholarly clarification of the text's difficult history. . . one of the most spirited efforts to capture the great poetic drama." -- Independent

"A translation of really poetic quality, preceded by an informative introduction and a most useful synopsis of the various stages of composition of the drama. . . This reissue is most welcome: for over and above having available for the non-Germanist an English version of this novel." -- The Classical Era

"The price [Luke] pays for rhyming is never too high, and the profits are immense. Michael Hamburger once noted that while Faust had been translated again and again, no single version had established itself as a standard text for the English-speaking world. With his Parts One and Two, Luke has provided us with exactly that." -- Times Literary Supplement

"A translation 'for our time' without signs of strain." D. J. Enright, The Observer

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