Word: swanwick
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...book of the play will be provided which will contain the standard Weimar text, the excellent English translation by Miss Swanwick, an introduction by Professor Francke, and a portrait of Goethe at the time of his visit in Rome in 1786, when the "Iphigenie" took its final shape. The play marks the consummation of Goethe's fealty to Greek ideals of art which was to last throughout his life-time. It shows him turning from the license of fancy and the affluence of sentiment that characterize his Storm and Stress Period, to a serener and truer view of life...