Dramatic poem · 1860
The Tragedy of Man
A dramatic poem in fifteen scenes
Translated by William N. Loew (1908)
Adam and Eve, newly cast out of Eden, are shown by Lucifer in a series of dreams the future course of humankind, from Egypt, Athens and Rome to the medieval church, Renaissance Prague, revolutionary Paris, a mechanised London and a frozen end of the world. In each dream Adam takes up a new ideal and sees it fail. Waking from the last, he is ready to end his life, until Eve tells him she is to bear a child and God bids him to strive and to trust.
Contents · 15 parts
- Scene Iabout 160 lines
- Scene IIabout 210 lines
- Scene IIIabout 230 lines
- Scene IVabout 320 lines
- Scene Vabout 340 lines
- Scene VIabout 360 lines
- Scene VIIabout 640 lines
- Scene VIIIabout 280 lines
- Scene IXabout 300 lines
- Scene Xabout 200 lines
- Scene XIabout 790 lines
- Scene XIIabout 580 lines
- Scene XIIIabout 180 lines
- Scene XIVabout 220 lines
- Scene XVabout 210 lines