The Man without Predicates
Michael Wood: Goethe, 20 July 2000
Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Volume II: Revolution and Reunciation, 1790-1803
by Nicholas Boyle.
Oxford, 964 pp., £30, February 2000,0 19 815869 6 Show More
by Nicholas Boyle.
Oxford, 964 pp., £30, February 2000,
Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams.
Wordsworth, 226 pp., £2.99, November 1999,1 84022 115 1 Show More
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams.
Wordsworth, 226 pp., £2.99, November 1999,
“... the dedicatory poem called ‘Zueignung’, which opens Faust: Part One, are translated by John Williams as What I possess now vanishes before me, And what was lost alone has substance for me. Was ich besitze, seh’ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten. The English lines are graceful ... ”