The Romantic period was
largely a reaction against the ideology of the Enlightenment period that
dominated much of European philosophy, politics, and art from the mid-17th
century until the close of the 18th century. Whereas Enlightenment
thinkers valued logic, reason, and rationality, Romantics valued emotion, passion, imagination and individuality. Chris Baldick provides the following
description: “Rejecting the ordered rationality of the Enlightenment as
mechanical, impersonal, and artificial, the Romantics turned to the
emotional directness of personal experience and to the boundlessness of
individual imagination and aspiration.” Read here.
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