THE NEOCLASSIC LITERATURE

 THE LITERATURE OF THE 18TH CENTURY: NEOCLASSICISM

 In literature the Neoclassicism was imposed: the illustrated authors b stirrup-straps of improvement of the company, of application of the racionalist thought and of spreading of the knowledge. This explains that there should triumph the classic beginning, based on the harmony and the balance, and that should reject the excesses of the imagination and of the expression that they had characterized to the baroque literature. As it had happened in the Renaissance, the classic art there turned into the model of the ilustrados.uscaron newly aesthetic model who was answering to his aspirations.

LITERARY FORMS

 POETRY

The Spanish Neoclassicism searches his models in France and Italy. But the written Neoclassicism is not almost non-existent in Spain, so the same poets who take refuge in his procedure connect also with the creative luxuriance of the Renaissance Spanish literature of the 16th century or take refuge in the taste prerromántico.
 The poets of this epoch register in two schools: the Salamancan and the Madrillera. Of the first one Meléndez Valdés and Churches stand out. To the group of Madrid there belong the Moratín father and son, Iriarte, Samaniego, Arriaza and the count of Nonscab.