BY
AUGUST WILHELM SCHLEGEL. 

CONTENTS. 

Preface of the Translator. 

Author's Preface. 

Memoir of the Life of Augustus William Schlegel. 

LECTURE I. 

Introduction--Spirit of True Criticism--Difference of Taste between the
Ancients and Moderns--Classical and Romantic Poetry and Art--Division of
Dramatic Literature; the Ancients, their Imitators, and the Romantic Poets. 

LECTURE II. 

Definition of the Drama--View of the Theatres of all Nations--Theatrical