• Spanish literature      TITLE: Spanish literature: The
Romantic movement     SECTION: The Romantic movement     One
major Romantic theme concerned liberty and individual freedom.
The late Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, in Rimas
(published posthumously in 1871; “Rhymes”), expressed his own
tortured emotions, suffering, and solitude but also celebrated
love, poetry, and intimacy while experimenting with free verse.
Rimas influenced more 20th-century...