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Characteristics:

Values feeling and intuition over reason

Places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination

Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature

Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication

Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual

Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development

Looks backwards to the wisdom of the past and distrusts progress

Finds beauty, and truth in exotic locales, the supernatural realm, and the inner world of the imagination

Sees poetry as the highest expression of the imagination

Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture

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