Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767–1845), German Romanticist, critic, and philologist, chiefly known in England for his translation into German, with the assistance of his wife and others, of the plays of Shakespeare, and for his influence on
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Women of Letters: A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim. By MARGARETMARY...period, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling (1763...1833) and Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859...A. W. and Fr. Schlegel u.a. (1871...her marriages with August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich...
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Heine's Aristophanes complex and the ambivalence of Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Vogel', die sind gewiss Das beste von VatersDramen. (2) In a deft...Vogel [...], nemlich die Vogel von Aristophanes'. (His reference...1821.) Heine first castigates August Wilhelm von Schlegel for his superficial judgement that...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/12/1994; 412 words
; ...mistress of Lord Nelson, 1765; Justus, Freiherr von Liebig, chemist, discoverer of chloroform, 1803...Deaths: Waldemar the Great, King of Denmark, 1182; August Wilhelm von Schlegel, poet and critic, 1845; Sir Charles Barry, architect...
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Negation's translation
Magazine article from: Artforum; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...destruction"; she believes that through translation she makes the text her own; and she counts herself, as August Wilhelm von Schlegel put it, a "prisoner of continuous poetic adultery." Ultimately, she finds pleasure in a kind of betrayal...
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#766
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/9/1994; 568 words
; ...translators and the famous authors whose works they translated are: (1) Jacques Amyot - (c) Plutarch, (2) August Wilhelm von Schlegel+ (not his brother Friedrich, as several readers correctly pointed out) - (e) Shakespeare, (3) Samuel...
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Chateau de Coppet near Geneva, Switzerland.(history of the chateau)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...de Stael cultivated for her illustrious guests, including such favorites as the writers Benjamin Constant; August Wilhelm von Schlegel, who was her children's German tutor; vicomte Francois Rene de Chateaubriand; and the great beauty Juliette...
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The angelic friar at the Met.(Fra Angelico)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...exemplifying in his life and art those Christian virtues so dear to the Victorian ethos. Most writers, beginning with August Wilhelm von Schlegel, who published the first modern biography of Fra Angelico in 1817, viewed the artist through this lens. It...
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Uwe Henneken
Magazine article from: Artforum; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...critic, and scholar Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel wrote to his brother August Wilhelm that he could "hardly send...absence of a definition in Schlegel's master term." Perhaps...Laura Owens, and Amelie von Wulffen, to name but a...
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Uwe Henneken: Andrew Kreps Gallery.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...critic, and scholar Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel wrote to his brother August Wilhelm that he could "hardly send...absence of a definition in Schlegel's master term." Perhaps...Laura Owens, and Amelie von Wulffen, to name but a...
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Witzige Spielgemalde: Tieck und das Drama der Romantik.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...be on the periphery of the movement, such as Wilhelm von Schutz with his Lacrimas and Friedrich Kind of...reference is also made to the dramas of Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Karoline von Gunderrode, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. It is...
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
August Wilhelm von Schlegel , 1767-1845, German scholar and poet. With his brother, Friedrich von Schlegel, he founded the Athenaeum, which he edited (1798-1800). He...
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767–1845) German poet, critic, and scholar. The founder and editor of the Athenaeum , Schlegel was one of the leading propagandists of German Romanticism . His major work was On the Language and Wisdom of India (1808).
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Friedrich von Schlegel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Friedrich von Schlegel , 1772-1829, German philosopher...Alarcos (1802). With his brother, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, he founded and edited the Athenaeum...after he and his wife, Dorothea von Schlegel, had joined (1808) the Roman...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling The German idealist and romantic philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) developed...Novalis, the poet; Friedrich and August von Schlegel, the translators of Shakespeare...
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Ludwig Tieck
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...principally Novalis and August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel. He collaborated with them...and the dramatists Heinrich von Kleist and Jakob Lenz. His...Shakespeare which had been begun by August Wilhelm von Schlegel. Completed in 1833, the...
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