Does anybody know if the Matthew Lewis translation of Faust I is in print? Or if it even exists today?
Its just that i am doing an essay on Byron and i'd like to read the same translation he heard.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Does anybody know if the Matthew Lewis translation of Faust I is in print? Or if it even exists today?
Its just that i am doing an essay on Byron and i'd like to read the same translation he heard.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
While Lewis is said to have translated Faust (orally) for Byron at the Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816 (1), are you certain that Lewis actually published a translation? I can find no reference to such.
(1) William Rose, review of Goethe and Byron by J. G. Robertson, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 3, No. 9 (Jan., 1927), pp. 106.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Goethe finished writing Faust around 1830.