Faust (trans. Bayard Taylor)
FAUST
A Tragedy
BY
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
TRANSLATED, IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY
BAYARD TAYLOR
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE
VOL. I.
Muss ins Land der Dichtung gehen:
Wer den Dichter will verstehen,
Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.
Goethe
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1870, BY BAYARD TAYLOR
COPYRIGHT, 1898 AND 1912, BY MARIE HANSEN TAYLOR
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Contents.
| Page | |||
| Preface | iii | ||
| An Goethe | xxi | ||
| Dedication | 1 | ||
| Prelude on the Stage | 3 | ||
| Prologue in Heaven | 11 | ||
| First Part | 17 | ||
| Scene I. | Night (Faust's Monologue) | 17 | |
| II. | Before the City-Gate | 34 | |
| III. | The Study (The Exorcism) | 49 | |
| IV. | The Study (The Compact) | 62 | |
| V. | Auerbach's Cellar | 84 | |
| VI. | Witches' Kitchen | 100 | |
| VII. | A Street | 113 | |
| VIII. | Evening | 117 | |
| IX. | Promenade | 123 | |
| X. | The Neighbour's House | 126 | |
| XI. | Street | 135 | |
| XII. | Garden | 138 | |
| XIII. | A Garden-Arbor | 146 | |
| XIV. | Forest and Cavern | 148 | |
| XV. | Margaret's Room | 154 | |
| XVI. | Martha's Garden | 156 | |
| XVII. | At the Fountain | 163 | |
| XVIII. | Donjon (Margaret's Prayer) | 166 | |
| XIX. | Night (Valentine's Death) | 168 | |
| XX. | Cathedral | 175 | |
| XXI. | Walpurgis-Night | 178 | |
| XXII. | Oberon and Titania's Golden Wedding | 195 | |
| XXIII. | Dreary Day | 203 | |
| XXIV. | Night | 206 | |
| XXV. | Dungeon | 207 | |
| Notes | 217 | ||
| Appendix. | |||
| I. | The Faust-Legend | 337 | |
| II. | Chronology of Faust | 345 | |
| III. | Scene from Marlowe's "Faustus" | 354 | |
FAUST
A Tragedy
BY
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
TRANSLATED, IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY
BAYARD TAYLOR
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE
VOL. II.
Was die Geschichte reicht, das Leben gibt,
Sein Bussen nimmt es gleich und willig auf:
Das weit Zerstreute sammelt sein Gemüth
Und sein Gefühl belebt das Unbelebte.
Goethe: Tasso.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1871, BY BAYARD TAYLOR
COPYRIGHT, 1899, AND 1913, BY MARIE HANSEN TAYLOR
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
| Second Part of the Tragedy. | |||
| Introduction. | |||
| Act I. | |||
| Scene | Page | ||
| I. | A Pleasant Landscape | 3 | |
| II. | The Emperor's Castle | 8 | |
| III. | Spacious Hall (Carnival Masquerade) | 21 | |
| IV. | Pleasure-Garden (Paper-Money Scheme) | 55 | |
| V. | A Gloomy Gallery (The Mothers) | 64 | |
| VI. | Brilliantly Lighted Halls | 70 | |
| VII. | Hall of the Knights (Paris and Helena) | 74 | |
| Act II. | |||
| I. | A Gothic Chamber, formerly Faust's | 84 | |
| II. | Laboratory (Homunculus) | 94 | |
| III. | Classical Walpurgis-Night. | ||
| I. | The Pharsalian Fields | 103 | |
| II. | Peneus | 114 | |
| III. | On the Upper Peneus, as before | 124 | |
| IV. | Rocky Coves of the Ægean Sea | 145 | |
| V. | Telchines of Rhodes | 155 | |
| Act III. | |||
| The Helena | 164 | ||
| ACT IV. | |||
| I. | High Mountains | 228 | |
| II. | On the Headland (The Battle) | 241 | |
| III. | The Rival Emperor's Tent | 259 | |
| Act V. | |||
| I. | Open Country | 271 | |
| II. | In the Little Garden | 274 | |
| III. | Palace | 276 | |
| IV. | Dead of Night | 282 | |
| V. | Midnight (Faust's Blindness) | 286 | |
| VI. | Great Outer Court of the Palace (Faust's Death) | 292 | |
| VII. | Mountain-Gorges, Forest, Rock, Desert | 305 | |
| Notes | 315 | ||
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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