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...
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In the following review, prompted by the republication of Schlegel's A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature in the United States, the reviewer praises Schlegel's critical in...
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In the following excerpt, Goslee considers the insight that Schlegel's A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature provides into the poetry of John Keats.
In a series of lectures on ...
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In the following excerpt, Behler studies Schlegel's ideas regarding the mythic origins and the formal, metrical, and aesthetic features of lyric poetry.
Considering the prominent rank of lyr...
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In the following essay, Black surveys Schlegel's life and literary career.
Augustus William Von Schlegel … was, with his no-less distinguished brother, Frederick, the son of John Adol...
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In the following essay, Atkinson reviews Schlegel's translations of Shakespearean drama.
There is no doubt that August Wilhelm Schlegel fully realized the magnitude of the task he was undert...
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In the following essay, Hofe considers Schlegel's diverse and thoughtful treatment of America and American themes in his writing.
In the monographs and articles on America in German literatu...
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In the following essay, Hirschberg compares the critical methods of Schlegel and G. W. Lewes, arguing for the influence of the former on the latter.
Bernard Shaw once termed George Henry Lewes ...
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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.
On April 1st, 1804, ...
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In the following essay, Ewton analyzes Schlegel's theory of poetic language.
In his “Briefe über Poesie, Sylbenmaß und Sprache” (1795-96) Schlegel observes, ...
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In the following excerpt, Stoljar discusses Schlegel's contributions to the journal Athenaeum, including his numerous polemical pieces and his study of Ludwig Tieck's Volksmärchen...
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In the following excerpt, Hughes summarizes Schlegel's literary criticism, principally concentrating on the writer's influential formulation of Romantic theory, and notes his accomplishm...
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Critical Review by American Monthly Review
