In what way does Romanticism challenge the aesthetic values of Neoclassicism?

Abstract

"For us, existence is feeling, and our capacity to feel inarguably precedes our reason." At a time when the ideal of enlightenment dominated in European cultural life, Rousseau was the only philosopher to enhance the significance of individual experiment and the need for nature in the education of young boys. Nature is elevated to a moral guide, a source of innocence and timeless truth. Those ideas are no less than the roots of Romanticism.