...Charles A. Krummel Half a Hundred Thralls to Faust: A Study Based on the British and the American Translators of Goethe’s Faust—1823-1949 . By Frantz Adolf Ingram . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1949 . Pp. xx , 315 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke...

...Herman Salinger Goethe’s Faust: A Literary Analysis . By Atkins Stuart . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1958 . Pp. xiv , 290 . $6.00 . Goethe’s Faust: Part One. Newly Translated . By Jessup Bertram . New York : Philosophical Library , 1958 . Pp. 224 . $3.75...

...Erwin G. Gudde Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 GOETHE AND HIS FAUST ERWIN G. GUDDE HE CHARACTER of Faust is a product of the intellectual revolution which shook the Western World in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. When the fetters of scholasticism were broken, when a new...

... Faust . By Stein William Bysshe . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1953 . Pp. vii , 172 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 150 The South Atlantic Quarterly But I would not end on a note of quarrel with Mr. Johnson s Charles Dickens. It is a good book...

... Er., Ill, 307. Meyer, Deut. Lit. des 19ten Jahrhunderts, p. 548. Er., I, 528. 376 The South Atlantic Quarterly the Second Part of Faust, there is no trace of any disparaging criticism of any of Goethe s writings. To be sure Keller does not give us anything like a detailed or analytic estimate...

... young, when he wrote the first part of his life. I would give the world to read Faust in the original. This passage is very significant for various reasons. In the first place, it reveals an almost naive ignorance of the external facts about Goethe and his writings, for the memoirs, here re­ ferred...

... and critic of them all, this little book is indispensable. WASHINGTON, D. C. SIDNEY S. ALDERMAN Goethe s Faust: A Literary Analysis. By Stuart Atkins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. xiv, 290. $6.00. Goethe s Faust: Part One. Newly Translated. By Bertram Jessup. New York: Philosophical Library...

... University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 306. $22.50. Fifty years have passed since Professor Avery O. Craven published his masterful life of Edmund Ruffin. Now a new generation of scholars has redis­ covered that group of antebellum intellectuals which Drew Faust in 1977 treated so engagingly in A Sacred Circle...

... spoken with Lord Byron, she gently took a rose which he wore in the button­ hole of his black frockcoat. He was pleased with her unaffected bold­ ness, and the next day sent her a charming note and a copy of Outlines to Faust as a more durable memento. Substantially the same facts insofar...

... as the emergence of Socialist Realism. Thomas G. Wiener. Half a Hundred Thralls to Faust: A Study Based on the British and the American Translators of Goethe's Faust 1823-1949. By Adolf Ingram Frantz. Chapel Hill: The University of North Caro­ lina Press, 1949. Pp. xx, 315. $4.00. In this work the author has...

... is concerned. Although I have found that nine out of ten edu­ cated Americans have not only heard of Goethe but can even give you the title of at least one of his works, usually Faust, not one of them feels lacking in experience by not having read Goethe. Appar­ ently in America Goethe shares with Dante...

... to transcend through a sophisticated technology man s natural limitations and in­ ferior spiritual capacities. But Wolfe was not an American Hamlet. Nothing may be more sig­ nificant in his career finally than his conception of himself as an Ameri­ can Faust. In November, 1928, Wolfe saw a performance of Faust...

...H. Shelton Smith Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Page missing from archival source 120 The South Atlantic Quarterly Edwards s works are of a controversial character, the historical circum­ stances which elicited them must be understood. In this respect, the Faust- Johnson...

... character, the historical circum­ stances which elicited them must be understood. In this respect, the Faust- Johnson anthology is far superior. Their introductory essay, filling more than a hundred pages, is exceptionally illuminating. Furthermore, Faust and Johnson, unlike Ferm, give an admirable...

... to real women disillusioned him. Occasional physical affairs left a sense of guilt. They were infidelities against his idealized mother-spouse. He read neoPlatonists, theosophists, occultists, and illuminati. He wrote poetry. His translation of Goethe s Faust provoked Goethe s admiration and inspired...

... against his idealized mother-spouse. He read neoPlatonists, theosophists, occultists, and illuminati. He wrote poetry. His translation of Goethe s Faust provoked Goethe s admiration and inspired Berlioz to compose The Damnation of Faust, whose choruses were Gerard s. His tales were widely acclaimed...

... without the impelling force of a noble indigna­ tion so powerful in Brand. These poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, belong to the same class of works asGoethe s Faust,"and their similarity with that poem has often been noted. Not that Ibsen owed anything to 192 The South Atlantic Quarterly. Goethe he...

... University Press 1964 Book Reviews 585 fusion to the reader: I, 299, note 1, line 7: for 527A read 257A; II, 132, note 2: Shelley s agua is correct, for the quotation is Spanish (except for the Italian conjunction, e II, 436, note 2: for Faust, Part II [etc.] read Faust, Part I, line 1700 (Part II...

... that I have been able to detect, the following may cause some con­ Book Reviews 585 fusion to the reader: I, 299, note 1, line 7: for 527A read 257A; II, 132, note 2: Shelley s agua is correct, for the quotation is Spanish (except for the Italian conjunction, e II, 436, note 2: for Faust, Part II [etc...

.... The letters of Boker to Taylor paint an unflattering picture of the man they had once admired: flippant, nervous, illmannered, and O, how boastful of himself and of his qualities. Taylor s translation of Faust, Browning had told Boker, had never been removed from its wrappings since he had received it. You...