Certainly these two literary movements share many
similarities, however both are distinctly different enough to warrant their separate
grouping. Romanticism values feeling and intuition over reason, places faith in inner
experience and the power of the imagination, shuns the artificiality of civilisation and
seeks unspoiled nature, prefers youth innocence to educated sophistication, champions
individual freedom and the worth of the individual and reflects on nature's beauty as a
path to spiritual and moral development.
A Transcendental
view of the world, on the other hand, believes that everything in the world, including
human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul, it argues that the physical facts of
the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual or ideal world, it believe that people
can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls,
it believes strongly in self-reliance and individualism, and finally it champions
spontaneous feelings and intuition over deliberate rationality.
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