AUSTIN, Sarah (trans.)

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Characteristics of Goethe. First edition of Austin's celebrated and most important translation, "which was based on recollections by Falk and others and included some of Goethe's poetry. It prompted [Thomas] Carlyle to exclaim, 'you can actually translate Goethe', something, he added, only a few in England could do [Troubled Lives, 70]. She was already known, according to the publisher Dionysius Lardner, as 'our best living translator', and the three volumes on Goethe gave her some celebrity and much more work" (ODNB).

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