William Blake and Napoleon Bonaparte with Respect to Their Roles in the Romantic Era

To date I have never been truly "caught" by any movement in history or any of the so-called "isms" that formed it, but in my recent studies of Romanticism and the feelings that it brought to show the world, I have been amazed. Never have I felt that my very thoughts and reasons in how I examine the natural world, literature, and most every aspect of my life as a violently analytical person have come to be illustrated through one movement as Romanticism. To be more specific, through the study of William Blake's world I feel like I have found not only an author's work to become infatuated with but also a "friend" in history with whom to examine myself in thought, "What would Blake think? Would he approve or disapprove? Would he take this at face value or delve into the soul of its argument." Bonaparte himself could not have been more different, but with aspirations per pound, I could think of no other man that conformed to societies wanton of a political and military hero. Although Napoleon was not a man for this literary movement, he was one for the political movement. …