English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1104 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Imagination Against Reason
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The idea
The Romantics placed imagination above reason as a power of perception and creation. The anchor describes the imaginative individual forming an ideal from nature and seeking it in the world, and it notes their attention to children, rural workers and poets as minds uncorrupted by convention.
In practice
Imagination over logic.
Where people slip
Children and poets are Romantic touchstones.
Your place on the trail
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