Key Points

• Very influenced by the ideas of the French philosophical school

• Wrote poems of delicacy of expression and grace

• His eclogues and romances have an easy flow and facility

• His philosophical odes reflect the deism of the time.

• Highly involved in the politics of his time.

• Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Relevant Works

• Las Bodas de Camacho

• Batilo

• Poesías

• "Al ser incompresible de Dios"

• " Los suspiros de un proscrito"