The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Frederick von Schlegel / Friedrich von Schlegel, Translated by E. J. Millington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1772-1829, author.

Contributor:

Millington, E. J., translator.

Series:

Cambridge library collection. Literary studies.

Cambridge library collection. Literary studies

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Art.

Aesthetics.

Sanskrit literature.

Romanticism.

Sanskrit language.

Architecture, Gothic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 533 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Aesthetic & Miscellaneous Works of Frederick von Schlegel

Place of Publication:

Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1849.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Summary:

Critic, poet and essayist Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) was a leading figure of German Romanticism. This 1849 collection of his shorter works in English translation contains his key insights into literary criticism and art theory. While his early writings had championed classical forms and rejected modern styles, he went on to develop distinctly Romantic aesthetics and ethics. His 1794 treatise 'On the Limits of the Beautiful' demonstrates this philosophical transition in its effort to harmonise the elements of beauty: 'the richness of nature, the purity of love, and the symmetry of art'. Schlegel's other writings here apply his developing Romantic aesthetic to Christian art, Gothic architecture, and medieval poetry. The collection also includes the English translation of his seminal work on comparative grammar, Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (1808), which is also reissued in this series in the original German.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-107-04945-8