175 years of Catalan railway poetry: The 19th century Authors Jordi Font-Agustí Keywords: railway, train, Catalan poetry, railway metaphors, Renaixença, Modernisme Abstract This article seeks to show that, from the very moment of its implementation in Catalonia 175 years ago, the railway has always been accompanied by poetry. From the circulation of the first train and during the growth of the network in the 19th century, the poets of the Renaixença and Modernisme movements celebrated with odes and other poetic forms the arrival of a transport means that was a symbol of progress. When necessary, however, they used satirical poetry to criticize its adverse effects. This opened up a space for railway-themed poetry that has continued up to our day. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2023-09-22 How to Cite Font-Agustí, J. (2023). 175 years of Catalan railway poetry: The 19th century. Revista De Tecnologia, (11), 44–52. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RTEC/article/view/150642 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 11 (2023) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista de Tecnologia, authors accept the following terms: Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Tecnologia (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista de Tecnologia. Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Tecnologia for the authorship and originality of submitted articles. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles. Societat Catalana de Tecnologia declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors. The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
