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Article: Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick, eds. Faustus: From the German of Goethe. Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2007
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(Oxford Univ. Pr, 2007) liv + 343 $170.00
Literary business can resemble a detective story, as Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick's edition of Faustus: from the German of Goethe. Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge proves, a thrilling account of the interlocking mechanisms of translation, adaptation, literary competition, collaboration, and, eventually, forgetting. The editors offer overwhelming evidence that assigns the authorship of a known yet hitherto anonymous translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's canonical drama Faust, published by Thomas Boosey and Sons in 1821, to Coleridge. As early as 1971, Paul M. Zall compiled evidence that, despite his ...