Abstract: In examining the evolutive theory of the mind in the poetic and prosaic works of renowned romantic poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge, efforts have been to emphasize the importance of the imagination, thus presenting them as writers who refuse to concur with the Age of Enlightenment that championed rationality over spirituality. These apparent attempts to unauthenticate the occurrence of the mind as an actual event, and as something which had, or genuinely could have happened, obscure and not testify to a higher universal truth. The intention in this article is to extend beyond the appraisal of curiosity of the mind and the work of the imagination as we defend the point that the underlying truth to which Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poetry rested was not just spiritual but also empirical. In so doing, this article seeks to make the contribution that though the romantic movement started as a protest against the cold, new age of reason, it was heralded by the writers’ striving for freedom: freedom from oppressive regimes, and freedom from the chains of mediocre poetry. The argument here is that in the wake of the great enlightenment, romantic poets dramatize, implicitly or explicitly, the education involved in being a poet, as they meditate on what it is to be known and what it takes for a poet to be free. As they recognize and react against the burden of external cultural demands, they advocate mental boosting through books and soul searching, a method rejected by the Graveyard poets.