 By contrast, Schlegel’s lectures as well as his translations (some of which are still used today) were very successful and influential. It was indeed A.W.  Schlegel’s lectures, with their particular view of world literature as an organic whole, that were to influence many authors.  F.W.J. Schelling (the most Romantic of the German idealist philosophers) and G.W. Hegel, for instance, used Schlegel’s Jena lectures as a basis for the elaboration of their Lectures on the Philosophy of Art (1802–1804) and Lectures on Aesthetics (1818) respectively. But A.W. Schlegel’s influence was not restricted to Germany alone. His lectures, having been translated into many languages and successfully promoted by authors such as Mme de Staël (Grundmann 2005: 40), were also extremely influential abroad—S.T. Coleridge being perhaps the most notable example (cf. Helmholtz-Phelan 1907). In the preface to his critical essays (Kritische Schriften, Berlin, 1828), Schlegel explains how many of the ‘revolutionary’ ideas he had formerly defended in his essays and lectures had been internalized and normalized by those very critics who had once rejected them with contempt. A.W. Schlegel’s response to this was modest: he said, he had just been able to foresee the coming shift of taste and evaluative parameters in the understanding and the interpretation of works of art (KS: I, vi).