Response About Romanticism

Laura's post about Romanticism was very interesting, but I see both the Enlightenment and Romanticism as working in the opposite way. When I picture the enlightenment, I see young iconoclasts who break the rules, who think about what has been learned through the years, reject all of it, and make up their own equally arbitrary systems. They may be more intellectual and more logical, but tradition has never been based on logic, and they break tradition far more obviously than romanticism does - Romanticism may be applied to conservatism, but Enlightenment thought almost never is.
Romanticism, on the other hand, seems much more traditional. While it's vibrant and emotional, unlike the enlightenment, its almost excessive level of emotion is inextricably tied to the past - to a nostalgia for the peaceful countryside and the spiritualism that came before the Enlightenment. Nostalgia rarely makes old ladies say 'tsk'.