Towards modernity: new attitudes of the lyrical self in Spanish poetry between Baroque and Neoclassicism

Abstract

Since the beginning of the decade of the 1670s, at a time when openly booted the scientific renewal promoted by the derogatory called novatores, whose innovative methods necessary printed their mark on the social and, by extension, poetic ideals, the authors showed signs of the search, conscious or unconscious, of new ways of poetic expression, shaking the dusty baroque paradigm and entering progressively but assuredly into the irreversible path which had opened the change of mentality. They were poets who accepted, in this time of transition between Baroque and Neoclassicism, and in varying degrees, the Modernity and its implications. This is why the fact of considering the poetic production of that period as frivolous and superficial is far from giving them justice. Although they did not openly, and in a similar manner, defend the same intellectual principles or aesthetic trends, the study of the poetic voice of the poetry produced during this period gives a good example of a different attitude to the world, to life and to their referents by all of them.