Tomás de Iriarte

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Tomás de Iriarte was a Spanish Neoclassical poet, dramatist, and translator known for his contributions to 18th-century Spanish literature. He was born in 1750 and died in 1791. Iriarte is most famous for his collection of fables, Fábulas literarias (1782), which combined literary criticism with verse. His work was part of a broader literary movement in Spain that sought to move away from Baroque excess and embrace clarity and harmony, drawing inspiration from Classical and Renaissance models. Iriarte was involved in a literary dispute with fellow fabulist Félix María Samaniego, who published his own collection of fables in the same year.12

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Félix María Samaniego
…former friend and fellow fabulist Tomás de Iriarte, and, because of an anonymous attack on Iriarte that contained criticisms of the church, Samaniego was imprisoned in a monastery in 1793.
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…former friend and fellow fabulist Tomás de Iriarte, and, because of an anonymous attack on Iriarte that contained criticisms of the church, Samaniego was imprisoned in a monastery in 1793.
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Tomás de Iriarte—a Neoclassical poet, dramatist, theoretician, and translator—produced successful comedies (e.g., El señorito mimado [1787; “The Pampered Youth”] and La señorita malcriada [1788; “The Ill-Bred Miss”]) and the satire Los literatos en cuaresma (1772; “Writers in Lent”), which attacked Neoclassicism’s foes. His fame rests…
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Tomás de Iriarte—a Neoclassical poet, dramatist, theoretician, and translator—produced successful comedies (e.g., El señorito mimado [1787; “The Pampered Youth”] and La señorita malcriada [1788; “The Ill-Bred Miss”]) and the satire Los literatos en cuaresma (1772; “Writers in Lent”), which attacked Neoclassicism’s foes. His fame rests…
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Juan Pablo Forner
…“The Erudite Ass”) the dramatist Tomás de Iriarte and his work came under vicious attack. A ban prevented his writing more satires after 1785. His two most important works are Exequias de la lengua castellana (1795; “Exequies of the Castilian Language”), a defense of Castilian literature; and Oración apologética por…
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…“The Erudite Ass”) the dramatist Tomás de Iriarte and his work came under vicious attack. A ban prevented his writing more satires after 1785. His two most important works are Exequias de la lengua castellana (1795; “Exequies of the Castilian Language”), a defense of Castilian literature; and Oración apologética por…
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