Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms

by Friedrich Schlegel, Ernst Behler (Translator), Roman Struc (Translator)

The Dialogue on Poetry is one of the most important of Schlegel’s critical and philosophical writings. Modeled on Plato’s Symposium , it comprises eulogies on poetry delivered by participants in a fictitious conversation, who represent the historical figures of the German Romantic School. Thus the Dialogue expounds the main critical ideas of German Romanticism and simultaneously provides a panorama of the early Romantic Movement. Schlegel was the leading critical thinker of the German Romanticists. His importance for the theory of Romantic poetry and the history of criticism becomes increasingly obvious with the growing interest in Romanticism. René Welleck called Schlegel “one of the greatest critics of history”; George Lukacs based his theory of the novel on Schlegel’s ideas; and Ernest Robert Curtius said about Schlegel’s position within the history of literary “In Germany we have Friedrich Schlegel—and beginnings.” This first English edition of Dialogue on Poetry , which also contains a carefully chosen selection of Schlegel’s poetic aphorisms, affords scholars and students in the field of Philosophy and in Comparative, General, and German Literature a new avenue of approach to European Romanticism.

Genres: Philosophy, Poetry, Nonfiction

173 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1800

About the author

August Wilhelm von Schlegel also edited a literary magazine with Friedrich Schlegel, his brother, a philosopher, poet, and critic, whose essays formed the intellectual basis of German romanticism.

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Reviews

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation. — Friedrich Schlegel, Literary Aphorisms [1797–1800], #146 (page 159)

[Liam de Graaf · Rating 3 out of 5]

¿Me ha cautivado tanto su escritura que he leído más de la cuenta? Si.

Era un ser pasional, curioso y dramático de cojones. Me suena esa descripción más de lo que debería. Jezz, planeo terminarme este show cuando tenga tiempo.