 Bosanquet’s aesthetics shows a debt to Hegel, to the Romantic poets, to the Arts and Crafts movement, and to the philosophy of Hermann Lotze (1817–1881). Bosanquet was particularly inspired by Hegel’s views on the function and the development of art, but he was also influenced by the Romantic movement and its disciples (e.g., J.W. Goethe, F.W.J. Schelling, and William Wordsworth—but also S.T. Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Blake), a movement that, interestingly, Hegel had disparaged. The Romantics’ emphasis on unity, the importance of art as a form of self-expression essential to the development of the self, and the organic conception of nature all have an important place in Bosanquet’s work. But other Romantic themes were not adopted so readily. Bosanquet rejected any emphasis of emotion over reason, and he acknowledged the importance of limits to art and to artistic activity in general. 