Description: Jarrell worked on this translation, expressed in several meters and blank verse, for the seven years preceding his death in 1965. Here, illustrations by the Czech artist Peter Sis accompany the text.
Synopsis Jarrell worked on this translation, expressed in several meters and blank verse, for the seven years preceding his death in 1965. Here, illustrations by the Czech artist Peter Sis accompany the text.
Details
Publication Date:
1997-12-01
Size
Length:
231 pages
Height:
8.5 in
Width:
6.0 in
Thickness:
0.5 in
Weight:
11.2 oz
Industry Reviews "Jarrell's version of Part One of the play...puts Goethe's dramatic layering into a poetry remarkable for its balenced register and its volatile combination of verse forms. But Jarrell's achievement is not just technical...Randall Jarrell worked toward a uniquely historical achievement: he wrote the first truly American FAUST." Threepenny Review - P. Campion