Faust Part 1 Emily Dickinson for life is merely 'a

for life is merely 'a kind of madness that death makes

the book is interspersed with ruminations on record collecting

strange joys

Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (translators)

Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator – and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system

Faust Part 1 Emily Dickinson for life is merely 'aThis new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the German ever achieved. The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern