...-1854), and George Wilhelm 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 the subjective: Science ... on the individual was reflected in ideas of self- realisation and nature. Wordsworth thought that the individual could directly understand nature without the need for...