Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust

Taylor & Francis

This book focuses on an exciting moment in the history of Anglo-German literary exchange in the Romantic period, the moment of George Gordon Byron's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's interrelated encounters with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's seminal dramatic poem, Faust.\n > Introduction: An Epic Connection Part I: Perspectives on Goethe\u2019s Faust 1. \u2018Eine Trag\u00F6die\u2019? Goethe\u2019s Faust in Theory 2. Faust I in Romantic-period Britain Part II: Byron, Shelley, and Faust 3. Infernal Irony: Faust, Cain, and Byron's Later Poetry 4. The Un-Faustian Epic: Faust and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound 5. Conclusion: Between Two Worlds