ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that emphasized the imagination and emotions. Imagination in romanticism is of great value metaphysically because in romantic poetry, which is an actual literature, a reader is provided the ability to create mental images that are not literary existed.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Romantics believed in the natural goodness of humans which is hindered by the urban life of civilization. They believed that the savage is noble, childhood is good and the emotions inspired by both beliefs causes the heart to soar. Romantics believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction.