Imagination

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Imagination

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Imagination and nature

Imagination and art

Imagination and philosophy

Blake: Ability to see more deeply into the life of things. Figures like William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats used nature as a source of inspiration for the imagination, seeing nature as a divine or transcendent force that nurtured the human soul. The imagination allowed humans to commune with nature in ways that transcended mere observation, tapping into its spiritual and emotional power.

"Romantic poetry for present-day readers has become almost synonymous with "nature poetry." Romantic poems habitually endow the landscape with human life, passion, and expressiveness. Wordsworth's aim was to shatter the lethargy of custom to renew our sense of wonder in the everyday." "The imagination of the Romantics not only allowed them to envision a better world, but provided them with the tools to make their poetry come alive to the reader."

THE IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION FOR ART

The Romantic Period created a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to the formal rules and traditional procedures.

Philosophy

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Kant: "Imagination is both an active and transcendental power, working behind the scenes of perception to organize and structure the raw material of experience in accordance with the forms of space and time."

Novalis: ''imagination elevates common things, giving them, instead of a finite shape, an infinite appearance''

Coleridge: ''imagination is divine and can make you connect with God ''