| Evidence: | S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate
Goethe's Faust:
'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworthy German poems, the "Louisa" of
Voss, and the "Faust" of Goethe, are the two, if not the [italics]only[end italics] ones, that are
emphatically [italics]original[end italics] in their conception, and characteristic of a new and
peculiar sort of thinking, I should not be averse from exerting my best efforts in an attempt to
import whatever is importable of either or of both into our own language.'
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| Reader: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Goethe |
| Title: | Faust |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27162 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Samuel Smiles | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1891 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 297 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 1, p. 297, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27162, accessed: 28 May 2023 | |
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