'"[3] The German philosopher Fichte (1762-1814) and then the romantic philosophers Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis found in this kind of self-knowledge the basic principle of the human mind or spirit.
"[5] Romantic philosophers affirmed that reality is created by the activity of the spirit, and in this way it is poetically produced.
"[7] Friedrich Schlegel writes that transcendental poetry should present the act of artistic creation along with the created work of art.
[9] In this perspective, criticism and artistic self-consciousness are constitutive parts of the creative work.
This self-mirroring of the work of art as a reflection on its poetic character is a constitutive element of modern poetic creation, and it also becomes a constitutive element of the work of art.