 Although Schlegel’s lectures were “avidly devoured by intellectuals from all of the European countries” (Engel and Lehmann 2004: 84) and in spite of what could be regarded as quite a success during his lifetime—Schlegel himself was proud to have been read “from Cadiz to Edinburgh, Stockholm and St. Petersburg” (Schirmer 1986: 233) –, the works of A.W. Schlegel have suffered from an arguably unfair and prejudiced neglect. A first full-scale biography was only published in 2016 (!). In this biography, Roger Paulin argues that Schlegel’s reputation “never quite recovered from Heine’s devastating attack in Die Romantische Schule of 1835” (Paulin 2016: 3). “Apart from the Vienna Lectures and the Shakespeare translations”, he writes, “it is Heine’s attack that remains in the general consciousness”, so that in the end the image that pervades is one of “decline, déchéance, decrepitude, impotence” (Paulin 2016: 542). Nonetheless, the recent rising number of dissertations, articles, and even monographies (such as Paulin’s) dedicated to different aspects A.W. Schlegel’s writings, seem to suggest that there is a slow but steady change of attitude towards his work.