Faust: a tragedy, parts one and two, paperback/johann wolfgang von goethe

A classic of world literature, Goethes Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy.

Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the texts varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles--dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring.

His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written translation of Goethes masterpiece available in English.

At last, the Greenberg Faust is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface, and notes.

Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat.

He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit.

Greenbergs translation lives ; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original text; I found it a joy to read.

--Irving Howe (on the earlier edition) About the Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist, playwright and politician.

Martin Greenberg is best known for his translations of Goethe and von Kleist.

He won a citation from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and received the Harold Morton Landon Verse Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets.

Daniel Wilson is Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London.