Romantics were fascinated by the supernatural, mysterious, unknown, irrational, magical, mystical, gothic, dead... They saw the value of the limits of human understanding, the unconscious mind & dreams, which remained free from the tyranny of the age of reason. Also, the exploration of the Gothic genre, emphasizing dark, mysterious & terrifying elements, and set in eerie, ancient & ruined landscapes.
- Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807), celebrate the emotions that nature can evoke in the human soul.
- Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) focuses on the intense emotions & inner life of its protagonist in her quest for emotional fulfillment.
- Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) reflect his belief in the power of imagination to reveal spiritual truths.
- Wordsworth described poetry as the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" in his preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798)
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) incorporates Gothic elements such as horror, the grotesque, and the supernatural.