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This essay will explore how the newly important concept of the individual in literature of

the Romantic period influenced the genre, and in particular how this was a response to the

rationalization of nature and neglect of the individual upheld by the Enlightenment

Movement. In order to demonstrate this, a close analysis of some poetic works by Samuel

Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and William Blake will be examined.

The Romantic period placed great importance on creativity, imagination and the value of

the self, Wordsworth and Coleridge were particularly influential in Britain with regards to

the burgeoning of the movement. The movement of romanticism and its concern with the

importance of the individual was the antithesis of the philosophy of enlightenment and its

concern with such views as held by the Empiricists. Their Philosophical beliefs were

primarily concerned with a theory of knowledge, the notion that experience is crucial to......

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