The literary and art-critical writings of Friedrich Schlegel played a central role in the development of Early Romanticism. This volume gathers the most important of these works as the only current edition on the market: On the Aesthetic Value of Greek Comedy, On Lessing, Critical ("Lyceum") Fragments, ("Athenaeum") Fragments, On Goethe's Master, Conversation on Poetry, and On Incomprehensibility. The texts follow their original print and are arranged chronologically by their publication. Extensive word and subject explanations, along with an introductory afterword, facilitate quick access to the complex early works of Schlegel.