The lectures, essays, and translations of August Wilhelm Schlegel count among the most significant productions of German Early Romanticism. One of the great intermediaries in the history of literature, he awakened Germany through his translations and...

In the following essay, Thalmann details Schlegel's career as an eminent literary critic and scholar in the Europe of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In the following excerpt, Behler studies Schlegel's ideas regarding the mythic origins and the formal, metrical, and aesthetic features of lyric poetry.

In the following essay, Ewton analyzes Schlegel's theory of poetic language.