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dc.contributor.authorPaulin, Roger
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-21 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:28:14Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:28:14Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier633793
dc.identifierOCN: 937026577en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31234
dc.description.abstract"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 and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man's rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel's activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent. "
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: generalen_US
dc.subject.othergerman romanticism
dc.subject.othermadame de stael
dc.subject.otherbiography
dc.subject.otheraugust wilhelm schlegel
dc.subject.othereuropean romanticism
dc.subject.otherBerlin
dc.subject.otherFriedrich Schlegel
dc.subject.otherGermaine de Staël
dc.subject.otherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
dc.titleThe Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0069
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b
oapen.relation.isbn9781909254954
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages678
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: August Wilhelm Schlegel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilhelm_Schlegel; Berlin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin; Friedrich Schlegel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schlegel; Germaine de Staël - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
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