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.


Wer die Dichtkunst will verstehen,
Muss ins Land der Dichtung gehen:
Wer den Dichter will verstehen,
Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.
Goethe

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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.


Sein Ohr vernimmt den Einklang der Natur
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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