![]() ![]() The imagination also provides a common human bond it provides a means of sympathy, of identification. ![]() The individual shapes the reality he perceives because he brings certain a priori knowledge to every experience. The Romantics felt that imagination was essential to individual happiness because it allowed the individual to, as Wordsworth stated, "half-create" the world. The Romantics found this form of world view to be restrictive. The growing intellectual movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries placed scientific thought in the forefront of all knowledge, basing reality in material objects. The English Romantic poets were generally concerned with the human imagination as a counter to the rise of science. ![]() The "Mind-Forg'd Manacles" of Blake's Poetry The "Mind-forg'd Manacles" of Blake's Poetry ![]()
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