LITERARY FORMS

The fabulist: The lyric neoclassical in Spain developed the gender of the fabulist. It is recalled to Aesop and Fedro. It is a gender teaching very developed at this time. The two best fabulistas del siglo XVIII are Felix Maria de Samarriaga e Iriarte. Another source of the fabulist of the 18th century is the tradition fabulist of E. M and also the Arab cultural that collects from Greece.

The difference between Samariago e Iriarte is quse Iriarte makes fables literary themes (literary and linguistic del siglo XVIII). Samariago makes moral fables.

SCHOOLS AND TRENDS: School Salamanca: starts to form from 1760. Influences in their training Jose Cadalso. The poets of Salamanca want the prestige that took the school in the 16th Century. Fray Luis de Leon was model for this school. Poets most representative: Fray Diego Tadeo(Delio), Jose Cadalso(Dalmiro), Juan Menéndez Valdés(Batilo), Juan Pablo Fornel(Amintas), Jose Churches of the House(Arcadio), Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos(Jovino).

Fray Diego Tadeo: grown mainly love poetry with topics gallant. In this period also belongs Jose Churches of the House, a specialist in the character derisory and satirical.

Juan Melendez Valdés: the most of it is a type of poetry elegíaca of great melancholy and subjectivism and a great feeling by nature.

It is prerromántico by its resources formal: label, vehemently in the expression....

School sevillian del siglo XVIII: continues the tradition of schools poetic of Seville. Already in the 16th century Fernando de Herrera was promoter of the school sevillian at that time.

Prose

Juan Pablo Forner, Merida 1756-1797. Belonged to the School Salamanca. Had contact with the Seville. Wrote Prayer apologetic by Spain and its merit literary and the funeral of the spanish language, book of character allegorical.

The novel

From the short novel baroque until the gaviota 1849 is said that there has not been a novel in Spain. The moralists regarded this as a gender sinful. In 1799 prohibits the impression of novels in Spain, so the century .XVIII has passed into history for the novel as a parenthesis. There are exceptions: The Father Jose Francisco of Island author of the history of the famous preacher Fray Process of Campaign and a group of novelists who closely follows the innovations of the french novel, for example innovation of Juan Jacobo Russó that grew up a genre novel of an educational.

Jose Francisco of Island (Leon 1703) marched to the banishment in 1767 by decree of the expulsion of the jesuits by Carlos III. Writes its history of Fray Process to banish the pulpit preachers culteranos. There was a strong reaction from the remaining orders. He was prohibited by the inquisition. It is a satire of the education system of the century .XVII based exclusively on the rote effort. Defends a teaching more rational. Jose Cadalso, Cádiz 1741-1782 Gibraltar.

The nights doom and gloom. Work composed of three nights, the last of the nights is unfinished. In one of those nights Tediato asks the gravedigger Lorenzo that helps you unearth to his beloved. There is a prerromántico environment in this work: environment, sepulchral cemetery, night, feelings vehement expressed, linguistically: label, exclamation, agitation.