Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat.
At last, the Greenberg Faust is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface, and notes..
His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written translation of Goethe\'s masterpiece available in English.
Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text\'s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles--dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring.
Greenberg\'s translation lives ; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original text
I found it a joy to read.--Irving Howe (on the earlier edition) A classic of world literature, Goethe\'s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy.
He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit.
Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat
