… romantics believed in a transcendental nature that moves through affects and inspires the visionary and autonomous individual. an individual who then creates their own imaginative and personal perspective on Humanity and the world. In short, they emphasized the power of the human imagination to contribute to the future,which stories we tell each other and how we tell them matters…
feelings, emotions, and the imagination …
Lewis Waller offers on the nexus of Romanticism and historiography. via aeon.
Also,
art thus becomes as Schelling famously argued the organon and criterion of truth itself
at 16:32.
Shelley’s Defence of Poetry, “Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”