Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde is not, so the author observed in entry 2071 of his Literary Notebooks, a true Romantic work. Earlier he had noted: "Eigentlich ist alle Poesie = Romantisch!"2 Paradox and contradiction are, of course, not considered unusual in Schlegel's writings. Examples are easy to find, and the principle itself defended. Since the principle of inner organization, the organic whole, is also propounded throughout his career, as it is indeed in the fragment on Lucinde referred to, the contradictions are regarded by those with a positive attitude to their progenitor either as deferments of a meaning which may be elucidated by study of further contexts, or as experimental stages on the path by which such an idea is developed. The option of experiment also has