NEOCLASSIC POETRY

  The 18th century I initiate with the new ideas of the illustration. The writers were doing re unions specialized so called gatherings, to exchange opinions and to express his critiques of everything related to the culture and the literature.
 The neoclassic poetry I develop in the 18th century inspired by ideal Frenchmen of the illustration; these there were proposing the return lyric models of the classic Antiquity (odes and eclogues).

CHARACTERISTICS

We can consider four general characteristics of the neoclassic poetry:
 - Lack of originality in the poets. The classic models were imitated (Greeks and Latin people) and he was named the prominent figures by names of classic heroes.
 - lack of real emotion. One was not finding the depth and energy of the poets of previous centuries.
 - use of a very light or too rhetorical and artful language.
 - treatment of topics like the love, the political satire and the praise of some progresses of the epoch.