Goethe, Volume 8:
Verse Plays and Epic
Edited by Cyrus Hamlin & Frank Ryder
Translated by Michael Hamburger, Hunter Hannum, and David Luke

Paper | 1995 | This book is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-04343-2
328 pp. | 6 x 9
Cloth | 1994 | This book is out of print | ISBN13: 978-3-518-02965-7
328 pp.

| Table of Contents

This volume presents the four plays and the narrative poem that, along with Faust, established Goethe as one of the masters of European verse drama and epic. These works in particular display a balance between poetic form and ethical sensibility that characterizes much of Goethe's work during the era of Weimar Classicism. Here we are offered new translations of the dramas Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, The Natural Daughter, and Pandora and of the epic poem Hermann and Dorothea.

Table of Contents:

Preface ix
lphigenia in Tauris (translated by David Luke) 1
Torquato Tasso (translated by Michael Hamburger) 55
The Natural Daughter (translated by Hunter Hannum) 141
Pandora (translated by Michael Hamburger) 217
Hermann and Dorothea (translated by David Luke) 247
Postscript 309

Other Princeton books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

• Goethe, Volume 2: Faust I & II.
• Goethe, Volume 3: Essays on Art and Literature.
• Goethe, Volume 5: From My Life: Campaign in France 1792-Siege of Mainz.
• Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
• Goethe, Volume 10: Conversations of German Refugees--Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or The Renunciants.
• Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella.

Subject Areas:

• Comparative Literature
• Collected Works and Papers

Hardcover published in 1993

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