[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] 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 [Illustration] [Illustration] 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 [Illustration] FAUST [Illustration] [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 translator in his views concerning the secondary importance of form in Poetry, practically discouraged any further attempt; and no one, familiar with rhythmical expression through the needs of his own nature, had devoted the necessary love and patience to an adequate reproduction of the great work of Goethe’s life.