Tomás de Iriarte

1750 - 1791, Neoclassicism

Key Points
  • Neoclassical poet and dramatist

  • Had a good knowledge of Greek, Latin and French languages

  • Composed poems in a wide variety of meters

  • His fables are inspired in the neoclassical values of teaching while entertaining

  • Attacked with humor the habits of the literary world of his time

  • Reported to the inquisition for his sympathies with the French philosophers

  • His goal was raising the cultural level of the society of his time

Relevant Works
  • La música

  • Fábulas literarias

  • El señorito mimado

  • La señorita mal criada

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