Spanish Enlightenment literature is the literature of Spain written during the Age of Enlightenment.
The Battle of Denain by Jean Alaux, 1839
Cover of L'Encyclopédie (1751)
Cover of the first edition of Foundation and statutes of the Royal Spanish Academy (1715)
Jovellanos portrayed by Goya, 1798. El Prado Museum
Juan Meléndez Valdés
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Juan Meléndez Valdés was a Spanish neoclassical poet.
Spanish Enlightenment literature
…pastoral themes that exalted pleasure and gallant love. Typical forms were odes, epistles, elegies and romances. Important names in Spanish poetry are Juan Meléndez Valdés, the leading Spanish representative of Rococó, Nicolás Fernández de Moratín and the fabulists Tomás de Iriarte and Félix María de Samaniego. Neoclassical…
Portrait by Francisco de Goya. circa 1797