Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy

Description

While preserving the line structure of the German original and verbal echoes that permeate the poem, Margaret Kirby's translation of Faust I attempts to capture in unrhymed modern English the distinctive voices, wide metrical range, quick shifts in tone, comic and tragic registers, and other key stylistic elements of Goethe's greatest poetic and dramatic masterpiece.

Margaret Kirby has been a tutor at St. John's College since 1990.

"Kirby reproduces in simple, clear Englishand almost always line for linethe meaning of Goethe's German text, with metrical variations that evoke the shifting meters of the original." Jane Brown, University of Washington "Kirby reproduces in simple, clear Englishand almost always line for linethe meaning of Goethe's German text, with metrical variations that evoke the shifting meters of the original." Jane Brown, University of Washington