Juan Andrés: «Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura». II. Poesía

Abstract

This paper presents the first universal History of Arts and Science, «Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura», written by an enlightened Jesuit, Juan Andrés (1740-1817). This work is a good representative of the cultural movement that could be called catholic encyclopaedism, in contrast with the French laic encyclopaedism and the german reformed encyclopaedism. This paper studies the volume II entitled Poetry.