“Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.” ArtBeautifulFormSpiritPoetryProcessCreationPoetCriticismImpressionRealmsToneSatireWorks Of ArtRepresentationCitizenshipCritique Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.” TwoBeautifulNaturalCommonHistoryEnvironmentConditionsOrdinaryCriticismHistoricalExtraordinarySuspectsReally GreatMaximsAxiomsImprobable Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.” PhilosophyTimeOughtCriticismPhilosophicalReviews Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.” Would BeAbleLiteratureConcernedCriticismTrendsLiterary CriticismTimely Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.” IfsArtWould BeAliveLoversGoodnessCriticismDestructionEnjoymentBeing The BestWorks Of ArtMysticalCritiqueDeservingExclamationDissection Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.” IfsIdeasAbleCriticismCriticsPhilosopherLikesNo IdeaSkepticDogmatic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.” ShouldReaderCriticismShould HaveCriticsStomach Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.” CharacterLiteratureNationsSubjectsObjectsCriticismExpertsMatureFavorite Subject Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
