Faust Author:Goethe In Goethe's reworking of the legend of Faust, he becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink". Goethe's Faust, a hybrid between a play and an extended poem, is a two-part "closet drama", epic in scope. It gathers together references from Christian, medieval, Roman, eastern and Hellenic poetry, philosophy ... more »and literature; ending in a Faust who is saved, carried aloft to heaven, as Mephistopheles looks on.