Romaticism And Romantic Authors

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of intuition and defenders of the heart, challenging the supremacy of the reign of reason; willing to resign themselves to nature, solitude, and perhaps even to the melancholia of alienation. They also take a stand to never relinquish the sovereignty of their own souls and passions to the rules of reason emphasized in the enlightenment age. A literary writer like Jean Rousseau defends the uniqueness of the individual when he emphasizes self-absorption and opposes self-judgement: “I am not made like any of those I have ever seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence.” Jean Rousseau also shows his uniqueness in his book From Confessions.
Johann Goethe uses emotion and cosmic objects, which are a part of nature as sources of his inspiration when he wrote Faust. An example of this is when Faust responds to Margaret’s question, “Do you believe in God?”(“Faust,” 29-43)
Does not the heaven vault above?
Is the earth not firmly based down ...

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