Faust (Part 2) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rich in allusion and allegory, Faust/Part Two ranges through a host of philosophical and speculative themes.

Goethe even foresees such modern phenomena as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis. But his greatest theme, dramatically represented in the marriage of Faust with Helen of Troy, embodies Goethe's 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the Germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks'.

Completed a few months before he died, Faust was the culmination of Goethe's lifelong obsession and assured him a place in the first rank of world literature.