About this book

This bibliography was commissioned by the English Goethe Society as a contribution to the celebration in 1999 of the 250th anniversary of Goethe’s birth. It sets out to record translations of his works into English that have been published in the twentieth century, up to and including material published in that anniversary year. It aims to serve as wide a constituency as possible, be it as a simple reference tool for tracing a translation of a given work or as a documentary source for specialized studies of Goethe reception in the English-speaking world.

The work records publications during the century, not merely translations that originated during this period. It includes numerous reprintings of older material, as well as some belated first publications of translations from the nineteenth century. It shows how frequent and how long enduring was the recourse of publishers and anthologists to a Goethe Victorian in diction, a signal factor in perceptions and misperceptions.

About the author

Derek Glass was putting the finishing touches to the bibliography at the time of his sudden death in March 2004. Colleagues at King’s College London edited the final manuscript, which was published jointly by the English Goethe Society and the Modern Humanities Research Association both as a worthy commemoration of Goethe’s anniversary and as a tribute to Derek himself.