Walter Arndt's translation of Faust reproduces the sense of the German original and Goethe's enormously varied
metrics and rhyme schemes. This edition presents Parts I and II complete.
Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been
expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type.
Comments by Contemporaries includes short pieces by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Wilhelm
von Humboldt.
Modern Criticism-comprised of ten essays newly added to the Second Edition-presents the perspectives of Stuart
Atkins, Jaroslav Pelikan, Benjamin Bennett, Franco Moretti, Friedrich A. Kittler, Neil M. Flax, Marc Shell, Jane
Brown, Hans Rudolf Vaget, and Marshall Berman.
