Juan Melendez Valdés

1754 - 1818, Neoclassicism

Key Points
  • Jurist, politician and poet.

  • He regularly participated in poetic gatherings

  • Good connoisseur of classical authors, Latin and Greek, as well as Renaissance.

  • He is the author who best reflects the poetic manners and the diversity of the styles of the seventeenth century in Spanish poetry.

  • He cultivated poetry with a somewhat frivolous and gallant style, within the literary topic of the 'locus amoenus'.

  • Like all poetry of the illustration, it seeks the reader's instruction through simple and precise language.

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