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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. 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. Translations 1964 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected Verse, Penguin 1966 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conversations and Encounters, Oswald Wolff 1968 – Adalbert Stifter, Limestone and Other Stories, Harcourt, Brace & World 1968 – Adalbert Stifter, The Recluse , Cape Editions 1977 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Roman Elegies, Chatto & Windus 1978 – Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O, Penguin 1982 – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Selected Tales, Penguin 1987 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Oxford University Press 1987 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea 1988 – Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Stories, Bantam Books 1994 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two, Oxford World Classics 1994 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Erotic Poems, Oxford World Classics References. Discover the Eduard Morike David Luke popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Eduard Morike David Luke books.