“The whole history of modern poetry is a running commentary on the following brief text of Shakespeare: 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact'.”

About Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosopher • German

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. Along with his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was a principal figure of the Jena Romantic...