According to the Great Falls Tribune, if “you’re a 19th Century Romantic scholar, [this] discovery is equivalent to finding the Dead Sea Scrolls”.
The discovery was of an English translation of Goethe’s Faust, anonymous, but believed to be by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Forty years ago, Professor Paul Zall found such a translation at the Huntington Library, and after many years of attempting but not being able to prove that the play was translated by the great British poet, he handed over the project to his student James McKusick, now dean of University of Montana’s Davidson Honors College. Read on to follow the twists and turns of the proof…
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