Torres Villarroel, editor de Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo. Nuevas notas sobre la poesía de uno de los fundadores de la Real Academia

Abstract

In 1744, Diego de Torres Villarroel published the Obras póstumas poéticas of Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo in an edition that is, to date, the most complete one available of the works of this writer, one of the founders of the Real Academia, in 1713. This article studies the genesis of this book, a few years after the publication of La poética by Ignacio de Luzán, and at the same time it analyzes a part of his poetry. I argue that his poetry foreshadows the aesthetics of clarity announced by neoclassical poetry, following the trend of recent critical interpretations that study the poetic creation of the period of the novatores, a term coined by the adversaries of those radical innovators of the early eighteenth century whose views were originally deemed dangerous, but which has since come to be one of praise.

Keywords

• Torres Villarroel Diego de
• Álvarez de Toledo Gabriel
• tiempo de los novatores