Title: What is the significance of imagination to the Romantics? Why is imagination important to the Romantics? - eNotes.com
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What is the significance of imagination to the Romantics? Why is imagination important to the Romantics?
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Content: In other words, the imagination constitutes reality as well as helping us to understand it. The imagination's creative aspect puts humans on a very high plane indeed, as it means that we share the same kind of creative powers as those enjoyed by God. With these extraordinary creative powers at one's disposal, the artist is able to create enduring works of art that can provide us with a glimpse into what is ultimately real. Last Updated by eNotes Editorial on April 14, 2021
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The soul is the center of a person for the Romantics, not the mind as it is for scientists of the previous movement, the Enlightenment. Romantics sought to tap into this soul through intuition and imagination. They felt that doing so was more natural and, as such, better than the contrivances of scientific pursuit in man placed himself in a position beyond his nature and often his ken. Approved by eNotes Editorial Team
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The imagination is of particular importance to the Romantics because they can see a world that has started to disappear with the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason. People had begun to turn toward the answers science was beginning to reveal to the world. However, the Romantics believed that there were many truths to be found in the natural world. Coleridge, for instance, grew up in a town where the only nature he saw was the sky and stars between buildings at night.