What is the relationship between Romanticism and the imagination?

Answer 1

The relationship between Romanticism and the imagination is a very strong one. Wordsworth said that what we create through the imagination is as important as what we perceive. Others put it even more forcefully. Coleridge, for instance, held that the world we are given is essentially dead unless redeemed by the human imagination. Romanticism was a turning away from the supremacy of the reason and an intense acceptance of the imagination. Keats's imagination was so strong that if he saw a sparrow pecking about in the gravel, he momentarily became that sparrow. Coleridge called "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" a work of pure imagination, like a fairy tale. Myths, legends, and fairy tales became central in the Romantic period, because of their imaginative quality. So did childhood, because in children the imagination is very active. The German philosopher Kant provided a philosophical structure for Romanticism: he underlined the transforming and creative powers of the mind.

Answer 2

The state of fantasizing. Or, perhaps fantasy is a bridge between Romanticism and the imagination. The one could not exist without the other.

The imagination created Romanticism. There-in lies the relationship.

Fantasy: Imagination unrestricted by reality. [Word appeared around 1300s.]
Romanticism: Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality. [Word appeared around 1850s as a movement in Literature and Art.]

Answer 3

I am not going to quote from any one else. this will be from personal observation: I am the type to throw my coat so a woman can cross with out getting wet. or give-ing red rose's to a female who has never had any given to her. I have given a woman a 1,000.00 $ just so she can get away from her abusive husband. & got nothing in return but the satisfaction of knowing that she could escape. & she did for a while. till he tracked her down. the imagination is limitless. that's where the supernatural comes in. human's have the ability to great things, if only they would!

Answer 4

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