ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as fear, horror, terror and awe-especially that experienced in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublime and beauty of nature.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Romantics tended to define and to present the imagination as our ultimate “shaping” or creative power, the approximate human equivalent of the creative powers of nature or even deity. It is dynamic, an active, rather than passive power, with many functions. Imagination is the primary faculty for creating all art.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Romantics highlighted the healing power of the imagination, because they truly believed that it could enable people to transcend their troubles and their circumstances. Their creative talents could illuminate and transform the world into a coherent vision, to regenerate mankind spiritually.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Romantic Period began roughly around 1798 and lasted until 1837. The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. There was a lot of social change during this period.

Detailed explanation-5: -Romantics placed value on “intuition, ” or feeling and instincts, over reason. Emotions were important in Romantic art. British Romantic William Wordsworth described good poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”