What is the significance of imagination to the romantics?
Hereof, what did the romantics think about imagination?
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.
Likewise, people ask, why is imagination closely linked with Romanticism?
The Romantics wanted to bring imagination more fully back into art, because they recognized it as part of lived experience. For the Romantics, emotion, memory, and imagination were closely intertwined. They wanted to capture emotional states, as well as the emotions evoked by memory.
Romantics put so much weight on emotion because emotion and its rose tinted glasses tend to simplify situations and put them in views similar to the art in society. What emotion can give that rationality does not is mood, which helps construct the context of everything we read and interact with.