The care and conscience with ...

The care and conscience with which the work had been performed were so apparent, that I now state with reluctance what then seemed to me to be its only deficiencies,--a lack of lyrical fire and fluency of the original in some passages, and an occasional lowering of the tone through the use of words which are literal, but not equivalent.
- P12

[오늘의 한문장] 파우스트 FAUST

Mr. Brooks was the first to undertake the task, and the publication of his translation of the First Part (in 1856) induced me, for a time, to give up my own design. No previous English version exhibited such abnegation of the translator‘s own tastes and habits of thought, such reverent desire to present the original in its purest form.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 파우스트 FAUST

The prose version of Hayward seemed to have been accepted as the standard, in default of anything more satisfactory: the English critics, generally sustaining the translator in his views concerning the secondary importance of form of Poetry, practically discouraged any further attempt; and no one, familiar with rhythmical expression through the needs of his own nature, had devoted the necessary love and patience to an adequate reproduction of the great work of Goethe‘s life.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 파우스트 FAUST

Preface

It is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the translation of Faust, in the original meyres. At that time, although more than a score of English translation of the First Part, and three or four of the Second Part, were in existence, the experiment had not yet been made.
- P11

■ 저자 소개 요한 볼프강 폰 괴테( Johann...

■ 저자 소개

요한 볼프강 폰 괴테( Johann 0wolfgang von Goethe, 1749년 8월 28일 ~ 1832년 3월 22일)는 독일의 작가이자 철학자, 과학자입니다. 1771년 변호사가 되어 1772년에는 제국 고동법원의 실습생으로서 몇 달 동안 베츨러에 머물렀습니다. 이 때 샬로테 부프와의 비련(悲戀)을 겪고 <<젊은 베르테르의 슬픔>>을 썼는데, 이 작품으로 일약 문단에서 이름을 떨쳤습니다. 만년에는 일생의 대작 <<파우스트>>를 완성했습니다.

- P3