La poesía inglesa de la naturaleza en el XVIII y su influencia en Meléndez Valdés
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https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2007.v69.i138.47Keywords:
Shepherd poetry, England, Spain, 18th centuryAbstract
‘Nature’ is a key word at the beginning of the 18th c. that appear in all fields of knowledge; the term is frequently repeated by literary critics, and thus Pope would advice poets: «First follow Nature, and your Judgment frame/By her just Standards, which is still the same», Essay on Criticism. Under the influence of Descartes, Newton and Locke, the beauty mean harmony, balance and perfect measure. During the fist quarter of 18th c. the representation of nature wild end up in the Thomson’s poem Winter. Would read the scottish poet in the english original (in his library there is a sample of the 1744 edition), and the poem wild exert considerable influence on the poet from Extremadura, above all in the Odas filosóficas y sagradas.
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