Faust (61 page)

P
ETER
S
ALM
was born in Hameln, Germany, and received his early education in Rome. After emigrating to the United States in 1938, he studied at UCLA and at Yale University, where he received a Ph.D. in comparative literature. He has written on Dante, Goethe, and Thomas Mann, on the interrelations among the arts, and on theories of literature. His books include a study of three major European literary scholars entitled
Three Modes of Criticism
, also
The Poem as Plant
, a work that takes account of Goethe’s endeavors in the natural sciences as they inform his poetry, especially his
Faust
. A recent book by Salm, which deals with the experience of time, is entitled
Pinpoint of Eternity: The Quest for Simultaneity in Literature
. He currently teaches in Cleveland at Case Western Reserve University, where he is Professor of Comparative Literature and German.