Discuss the intellectual factors that led to the Romanticism?

Romanticism is a reaction against the intellectual climate
that preceded it.  Reason rules in the neoclassical period and in the Age of Reason, and
during The Enlightenment.  These are times of satire, of concentrating on the big social
and political and religious issues. 

Romanticism
concentrates on the personal, the individual, intuition, the imagination.  Romanticism
stresses the opposite of what came before in almost every thought it
expresses.  Jonathon Swift takes on the entire British government, wealthy English, and
wealthy Irish, to combat poverty, while Blake writes about the mistreatment of chimney
sweeps.  Romanticism breaks the issues down to the personal
level. 

One more example:  Deism is prevalent in the Age of
Reason, etc.  Man is seen as preeminent and any creator is indifferent.  Man's future is
in the hands of man.  Romanticism stresses an intuitive or transcendent connection with
nature.  Man communes with nature and is changed by it.  Romanticism is interested in
that which is beyond human understanding and reason.