How did Romantic Imagination help in …

1) Criticism against science = Romantic poets and nationalists strongly criticised the ideas of science and reasoning and stressed on the ideas of emotion, intuition and mystic feelings. 2) Folklore = Other Romantic nationalists emphasized the importance of folklore. For example, the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder once claimed that true German culture, if discovered by common people (DAS VOLK) through folklore, folk poetry, folksongs and folkdance, would help revive the true spirit of the nation (VOLKSGEIST). 3) Emphasis of Vernacular Language = They highlighted on the importance of Vernacular language which they considered not only helped recover ancient national spirit but also spread the idea of nation state among the illiterate population.