Great Regulars: You can imagine people thinking:

poor old Goethe, yet another victim of Coleridge's internal chaos.

One scholar who took a different view was Paul M Zall, who in 1971 began to put together a case that Coleridge had indeed translated Faust, and published his work in 1821, but had done so anonymously. The version is not complete.

from James Fenton: The Guardian: Faust lost in translation?

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