.... It roots can be found in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. ... Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) in Germany; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in Britain. Philosophically romanticism represents a shift from the objective to...reflected in ideas of self- realisation and nature. Wordsworth thought that the individual could directly understand ...