What was Byron's central idea about Romanticism?
Romanticism, for me, was not merely a fashion of verse but a vital, often tempestuous, current of the soul. It was about embracing the untamed forces within us and without. I found the sublime not in polite drawing-rooms but in the craggy mountains and the turbulent seas, mirroring the very storms that raged within the human heart. My work championed individual feeling, imagination, and a profound connection to nature, seeing it as a powerful, almost divine, reflection of our inner landscapes. The artificial constraints of society, the polite veneer of convention – these I sought to shatter with the raw, unvarnished truth of passion and experience.
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