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The Romantics insisted on the importance of feeling and passion. They felt that imagination was an amazing and visionary faculty allowing an insight into the truth of things, both natural and supernatural. The Romantics focused on the individual perspective and not on an objective reality. Lastly, the Romantics were ready to play with language and form. To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of the precepts of Romanticism in relation to Wuthering Heights and other related texts?

1. Hannah= are you meant to address all parts of the question ? Kate = so much to talk about! KT = that would be good! Yes - how then to synthesise? (Alex) Signpost!!

2. Alex = (sounding very smart!) The importance of feeling and passion in text A is emphasised, however not explored to the same extent in text B. In text B the focus is more prominently on the supernatural...

3. Hannah = what if you want to discuss things that aren't in the question? KT =Address the question, comment on the extent it agrees with your understanding, then move on. Romanticism = MT = emotion over reason, natural environment - sublime, individual IS= individual, nature & supernatural AM= sensibility, sublime, supernatural, myth, dreams, visions and pantheism ND = individual, nature, emotion KB= emotion, nature, gothic HF = passion & imagination, natural/supernatual, individual OL = passion, emotion, nature and individual Maude = individual expresion, nature & supernatural AP= individual's imagination & nature, emotion, revolution EW= individual, supernatural & imagination, intense emotion "Lastly, the Romantics were ready to play with language and form. " - about liberation, freedom, claiming personal expression relaxed form techniques Coleridge & Wordsworth reject - Augustan precepts - order, structure, rational, witty, intellectual .... intense representations of emotion symbolism conversational - direct narrative story within a story, layering, cyclical 'ready to play' - ready to challenge, respond to revolutionary call....