Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Spirit of Goethe's Faust
I have only one word still to say, with regard to quotations of the poem. I have not attempted to the slightest extent to add to the number of existing excellent translations. My selections have been made chie?y from the renderings of Bayard Taylor and Miss Swanwick, of both of which I have expressed admira tion in terms sufficiently clear. I have usually noted my indebtedness by an S. Or a T. Respectively. I cherish the hope, however, that my little sketch will send some of my readers to the original, when they will be soothed and elevated by a music that haunts the mind as no foreign tones ever can.
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