Defining an Aesthetic Romanticist

I view myself as many things, and in trying to find just a few words to define how I see myself, I came across these meanings for aesthetic, which is inclusive of my love of beauty, creativity and sensuous nature (as in, pertaing to the senses).

Aesthetic:

Having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.

Artistic: The play was an aesthetic success.

Relating to the sensations.

Iwould also describe myself as: Emotional/Sensitive, Idealistic, Imaginative, Individualistic/Unique. I have a sense of adventure, a respect for the past and other places and times - old world and other worldly. I wish for gallantry to make a comeback. I have a regard for tradition, although I would not at all call myself a traditionalist. I am quite pensive and inwardly centered. I love mystery and am intrigued by the unknown and unseen - the transcendental. I have a GREAT revere for nature. Thusly I am a.......

Romanticist:

Although not all of the following applies, I do think it pretty well defines the bulk of me.

Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

"Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in a way of feeling."

Visionary, idealistic

A heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination.

Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities; a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general, and a focus on his passions and inner struggles; a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures; an emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth; an obsessive interest in folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era; and a predilection for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the satanic.

Individualism:
The Romantics asserted the importance of the individual, the unique, even the eccentric.

Imagination:
The Romantics tended to define and to present the imagination as our ultimate "shaping" or creative power, the approximate human equivalent of the creative powers of nature or even deity.

Other Places and Times/The Unknown and Unseen:
as opposed to everyday subjects, various forms of the exotic in time and/or place also gained favor, for the Romantics were also fascinated with realms of existence that were, by definition, prior to or opposed to the ordered conceptions of "objective" reason.

Nature:
While particular perspectives with regard to nature varied considerably--nature as a healing power, nature as a source of subject and image, nature as a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization, including artificial language--the prevailing views accorded nature the status of an organically unified whole. It was viewed as "organic," rather than, as in the scientific or rationalist view, as a system of "mechanical" laws,

And an Epicurean as well.......

I am also a comfort loving creature and if I could always indulge myself in luxury and fine cuisine.... I WOULD! :D

Epicurean:

displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"

a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)