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Eugène Delacroix: Mephistopheles Offering His Help to Faust
Eugène Delacroix: Mephistopheles Offering His Help to Faust Mephistopheles Offering His Help to Faust, illustration for Goethe's Faust, lithograph by Eugène Delacroix.

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Faust, two-part dramatic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Part I was published in 1808 and Part II in 1832, after the author’s death. The supreme work of Goethe’s later years, Faust is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature. Part I sets out the magician Faust’s despair, his pact with Mephistopheles, and his love for Gretchen. Part II covers Faust’s life at court, the wooing and winning of Helen of Troy, and his purification and salvation. In earlier eras the play was often decried as formless because of its array of lyric, epic, dramatic, operatic, and balletic elements. ...(100 of 227 words)

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