ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romantics came to believe that, through the imagination, you could discover truths that the rational mind could not reach. To the Romantics, the imagina-tion, individual feelings, and wild nature were of greater value than reason and logic.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romantics believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction. This is best summed up by Wordsworth who stated that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Value feeling and intuition over reason; viewing life as we would like it to be (rather than it really is); began in Germany and influenced lit. music and art. romanticism.