Best translations for Goethe?
>>9681234
See the other Goethe thread that's up for best Faust translation.
>>9681234
David Luke is currently the most commonly used and quoted by academics, in modern English universities. Go with that.
Harold Bloom recommends the Atkins translation, but to be honest, this is as florid and ornate as Pope's Homer. It's a work unto itself, and more than a translation.
Auden translates the Italian Journey, available in Penguin. Nice work.
>>9681234
Carlyle's Wilhelm Meister.
>>9681275
>Faust
>implying
Goethe looks like my estranged Uncle who is good with computers and knows a lot about whiskey production.
>>9682562
Why is he estranged?