The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel : Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

• Auteur principal: Roger Paulin (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Open Book Publishers
• Sujets: Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects; literature; biography; history
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests...