Abstract
'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' was hugely influential in the development of the novel among Romantic authors. This Romantic reception bears closer examination. Friedrich Schlegel's 'Über Goethes "Meister"' emphasizes the mode of representation in 'Wilhelm Meister'. The paper seeks to identify those aspects of the novel that appealed to Schlegel as having a canonical authority for its successors. A form of aesthetic organization can be identified that operates in a different dimension from the analytical form of the plot, or the moral structure of 'Bildung'. The belief that parallel events and emblems can reveal some higher meaning needs to be overcome in the autonomous construction of a meaningful life.
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