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David Luke

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David Luke (1921–2005) was a scholar of German literature at Christ Church, Oxford.

He was renowned for his translations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Heinrich von Kleist, Eduard Mörike, Adalbert Stifter and the Brothers Grimm. Not to be confused with Australia’s “Little General”.

He won the European Poetry Translation Prize – subsequently renamed the Popescu Prize – in 1989 for his translation of Part I of Goethe's ''Faust''. In 2000, the German-British Forum awarded him a medal of honour for his contributions to cultural relations between the UK and Germany.

According to one 2017 appraisal, Luke's translation of Goethe's ''Faust'' is said to "allow Goethe's complex and varied meanings to emerge, including his philosophic and religious skepticism" and is described as "being more open to the conflicts and contradictions, theological and secular, virtues and vices, and idealism and cynicism than many translations into English".

Luke described translation as being "the art of the least intolerable sacrifice ... the instinctive choice between competing imperfections".

His literary agent and others have commented that he was "famed for his love of playing Wagner at maximum volume". He was friends with W. H. Auden and Iris Murdoch. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Faust. Part one / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated with an introduction and notes by David Luke. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

    Published 1998
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    Goethe's Roman elegies / translated with an introd. and notes by David Luke. -- by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

    Published 1977
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    Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated, with an introduction by David Luke. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

    Published 1987
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    Faust. Part two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated, with an introd. and notes by David Luke. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

    Published 1998
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    Conversations and encounters / Edited and translated by David Luke and Robert Pick. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

    Published 1966
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    Mozart's journey to Prague and a selection of poems / Eduard Mörike ; translated and with an introduction and notes by David Luke ; Scots translations by Gilbert McKay. by Mörike, Eduard, 1804-1875

    Published 2003
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    Selected poetry / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated with an introduction and notes by David Luke. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

    Published 1999
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    Erotic poems / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; verse translation by David Luke ; introduction by Hans Rudolf Vaget. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

    Published 1997
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