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Romanticism. Different points of views on Romanticism. “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.” –Keats.
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Romanticism Different points of views on Romanticism
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.” –Keats
The Romantic Movement: it marked for many people (although not for all) the abandonment of the idea that there was a given order in nature; it posited the notion that order was something not discovered in nature but created by the human mind.
In the Romantic view, the interpreter should act as a lamp which, in the process of casting light out into the dark chaos of the incoherent given, ordered experience by the power of the illumination. What fed the lamp was not something given by the external world but the fuel provided by the individual imagination.
Whatever threatens such imaginative freedom is dehumanizing.