In general, some major principles or themes of Romanticism were:
- The importance of emotion. Romantics believed that people should heed their emotions rather than trying to be logical and rational.
- Nature. They felt that nature was important and that people ould learn from it. They felt that people should try to "connect" with nature.
- Pantheism. This is related to the last point. The idea of many gods representing, for example, aspects of nature would appeal to romantics.
- Dreams and visions. This is related to the first point. They thought these had deep meaning and claimed (Coleridge and "Kubla Khan" for example) at times to get their poems in dreams
There are others, but these are the ones that are most important.
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