SCIENCE IN 19TH-CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE

Some scientific phenomena, such as the train, the aerostatic balloons, or references to chemistry, or physics, are the few cases that can be found in the press or in the literary works. However, in the context of the Spanish Romanticism, sciences nurture literary works, especially Becquer. Philosophically, sciences are an unavoidable element for the poet / artist, since scientific knowledge allows him or her to know the universe about which he or she wanted to write. Light and colour are indispensable elements in Romantic literature, which combine in the shape of total art sciences and the arts.