La libertà della poesia tra primo romanticismo e Hegel

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between freedom and poetry (Poesie) through a comparison between the perspective of early Romanticism, specifically Friedrich Schlegel, on the one hand, and Hegelian philosophy on the other. While the terms may appear similar at first glance, for Schlegel, freedom is an essential factor enabling the conceptualization of poetry as the central element in the new mythology project. Meanwhile, for Hegel, freedom permits poetry to indeed occupy a position as the most universal art among the particular arts, but also a potential source of danger if not understood in the proper way. Due to the shared linguistic medium, this risk may result in the transformation of poetry into either the prosaic realm of everyday language or the realms of religion and philosophy (which is one of the possible interpretations of the end of art thesis). In this way, from the specific vantage point of the freedom of poetry, some of the distinctive general features of the two philoso- phical perspectives come to light.