In this episode of The Pilgrim's Interests, Blake Hart takes listeners on an evocative journey through the Romantic movement, focusing on the lives and works of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Emerging as a profound critique of the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason and scientific progress, the Romantics offered a different vision—one that placed emotion, nature, and the sublime at the center of human experience. Discover how Wordsworth’s reverence for nature and Coleridge’s deep exploration of the imagination called humanity back to the emotional and spiritual dimensions of life that reason alone could not grasp. Through poetic excerpts, philosophical reflection, and vivid storytelling, this episode explores how the Romantic rebellion against reason remains profoundly relevant in our modern, often mechanistic world.

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