John Keats: [Isaac Newton] destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism. In the article Haworth describes at several points the language of di

John Keats: [Isaac Newton] destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism. In the article Haworth describes at several points the language of diverse people describing the heavens. The advances of science wipe away old romantic notions from our culture. Here is an exhibition catalog with a similar theme. Artistic works are shown to shift away from imagining the heavens, because, the theory goes, science shows us the heavens so clearly--like photography's effect on painting. Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde. Ed. Clair, J. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (1999) https://books.google.com/books?id=tAtlPwAACAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=tAtlPwAACAAJ