FAUST
_by_
_Johann Wolfgang von Goethe_
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
_Harry Clarke_
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, IN
THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY
_Bayard Taylor_
_An Illustrated Edition_
THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO NEW YORK, N.Y.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
PREFACE
AN GOETHE
DEDICATION
PRELUDE AT THE THEATRE
PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN
SCENE I. NIGHT (_Faust's Monologue_)
II. BEFORE THE CITY-GATE
III. THE STUDY (_The Exorcism_)
IV. THE STUDY (_The Compact_)
V. AUERBACH'S CELLAR
VI. WITCHES' KITCHEN
VII. A STREET
VIII. EVENING
IX. PROMENADE
X. THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE
XI. STREET
XII. GARDEN
XIII. A GARDEN-ARBOR
XIV. FOREST AND CAVERN
XV. MARGARET'S ROOM
XVI. MARTHA'S GARDEN
XVII. AT THE FOUNTAIN
XVIII. DONJON (_Margaret's Prayer_)
XIX. NIGHT (_Valentine's Death_)
XX. CATHEDRAL
XXI. WALPURGIS-NIGHT
XXII. OBERON AND TITANIA'S GOLDEN WEDDING
XXIII. DREARY DAY
XXIV. NIGHT
XXV. DUNGEON
FAUST
[Illustration: Preface]
It is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the translation of _Faust_, in the original metres. At that time, although more than a score of English translations of the First Part, and three or four of the Second Part, were in existence, the experiment had not yet been made. The prose version of Hayward seemed to have been accepted as the standard, in default of anything more satisfactory: the English critics, generally sustaining the tran…