Nature, much alike the Christian impression of God, is dynamic, eternal and omnipresent, glorified by romanticists for it’s ability to inspire, nurture and destroy. As the cornerstone of romantic idealism, nature was a “power at the heart of the romanticist's imagination,” epitomised in their art and literature.
It had the potential to “render one small and insignificant” yet it could also connect one with eternity, a spiritual concept which corresponds to the notion of eternal life presented in Christianity. This sense of sublimity is what initially drew romanticists to nature, as they revered in the surreality and complexity of their natural environment which transcended the mundane, mechanical world. Nature was distinguished for it’s ability
It had the potential to “render one small and insignificant” yet it could also connect one with eternity, a spiritual concept which corresponds to the notion of eternal life presented in Christianity. This sense of sublimity is what initially drew romanticists to nature, as they revered in the surreality and complexity of their natural environment which transcended the mundane, mechanical world. Nature was distinguished for it’s ability