Abstract:

In 1863, in his last year of study at the famous Pforta school, Nietzsche read Lectures on Literature and Art and the essay Bürger by A. W. Schlegel, both on which he made notes. It was from such texts that he gained access to a detailed exposé on romantic theory regarding art and language, as well as an analysis on the work of the poet Gottfried August Bürger. His interest in the romantic aesthetics of August Schlegel would persist in the following years, continuing through the entire period in which he wrote The Birth of Tragedy. This article aims to examine Nietzsche’s reception of Schlegel’s works, notably the essay Bürger, as well as expound on important aspects of the dialogue he established with the early German romanticism.

Keywords:
Nietzsche; A. W. Schlegel; Early German romanticism; language; poetry.