Faust, Parts One and Two, Goethe's primary text in Bayard Taylor's English translation, is read here from Project Gutenberg's public domain edition. Its strength is that it is a long standard, historically significant English rendering of the complete work. Its limit is that Taylor's nineteenth century verse translation reflects the interpretive choices of its own era rather than modern Goethe scholarship, so a claim resting on precise wording is stronger when checked against a modern scholarly translation as well.
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Reliability TierJohann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Parts One and Two, in Bayard Taylor's English translation, first published by Fields, Osgood and Co. and now in the public domain, read here from Project Gutenberg's edition, the middle tier reflecting that Taylor's translation, though historically significant and long standard, is a nineteenth century verse rendering rather than a modern scholarly critical edition, so a claim resting on precise wording benefits from checking against a modern translation as well. NotesGoethe's two-part closet drama (Part One 1808, Part Two 1832, published in the year of his death), read here in Bayard Taylor's classic public-domain nineteenth-century English verse translation, still a standard English rendering. Used for the play's own theological reversal of the folk legend's ending, on which Taylor's translation and the German original agree. 1 Citation
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Bayard Taylor 1 PublisherFields, Osgood and Co. (Part One 1870, Part Two 1871); public domain 1 Publication Year URLhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14591 1 Source TypePrimary text in translation 1 Sources
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