 In all of Schlegel’s writing about literary and artistic modes and genres, there is also a powerful return to formative questions about the relations art bears to its sometimes rivals in philosophy and religion. Schlegel of course revived questions about the philosophical shape of literature and the literary shape of philosophy that ultimately run back to Plato’s “ancient quarrel” (Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy 1978). And, like his fellow Romantics Novalis and Schleiermacher, he also closely linked art and religion in ways that picked up fundamental issues in the religious discourse of his time (see Ziolkowski 1990, Smith 2019 and Hampton 2019): the relation of the infinite and finite (‘only he can be an artist who has his own religion, an original perspective on the infinite’ [KFSA 2.257]) and the notions of symbol and myth and their connection to an increasingly pluralistic religious world (Dieckmann 1959, Speight 2019). 