ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -According to the romantics, the solution was “back to nature” because nature was seen as pure and a spiritual source of renewal. It was also a way out of the fumes of the growing industrial centres for the new industrial rich.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romantic poets adore nature and solemnize in its various aspects. They wrote about the beauty of every aspects of nature . Almost all the romantic poets touched the agony of the soul and every scene of natural beauty. The romantic poets substituted love, emotions, imagination, and beauty.

Detailed explanation-3: -Romanticism was inspired by Kant’s critical approach to the problem of knowledge, but rejected his limits to that knowledge, seeing it as confining the science of vital nature to the materialist approach, making life an epiphenomenon of “the chance whirlings of unproductive particles” as Coleridge put it succinctly.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Romantic art, nature-with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes-offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought. The violent and terrifying images of nature conjured by Romantic artists recall the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the Sublime.