Faust I Matthew Lewis Translation

[SenetorNicole]

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!

[jgweed]

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.

[SenetorNicole]

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.

I read in the Princeton University Press edition that the text was published in 1808, but come to think of it i may have assumed that the translation was Lewis' after reading that Byron had heard his.

I will have to check back with the text - but thanks for the help :)

[fb0252]

Goethe finished writing Faust around 1830.