What is the significance of imagination to the Romantics? Why is imagination important to the Romantics?

The soul is
the center of a person for the
Romantics, not the mind as it is for scientists of the previous
movement, the
Enlightenment.  Romantics sought to tap into this soul through intuition and

imagination.  They felt that doing so was more natural and, as such, better than
the
contrivances of scientific pursuit in man placed himself in a position
beyond his nature and
often his ken.