The Evolution of European Literary Movements

The popular literature had great vitality in the modern age. The songbook includes popular legendary songs, love songs, songs of thieves and bandits, religious songs, etc. The religious drama has a didactic purpose (passion, lives of saints), and the theater is of a profane nature, humorous (hors d'oeuvres and saints).
Renaixement: Taking ideas from humanism, it began in Italy and spread throughout Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The idea of rebirth expresses the desire to restore the ideals of classical civilization (Seraph Peter and Christopher Despuig).
Baroque: This movement predominated in Europe, especially Spain and England, during the seventeenth century. It uses parody, satire, and caricature, which is another way to confront disappointment and pessimism (Francesc Vicent Garcia is considered the most representative of the Baroque in Catalonia).
The Illustration and Neoclassicism: This philosophical and scientific movement, which originated in England and France, grew in Europe during the eighteenth century. It is a rationalist movement, meaning it believed that all things should be judged in the light of reason. They created the encyclopedia, the first major summary of all human knowledge. The triumph of enlightened thinking is artistically represented in particular by Neoclassicism (second half of the 16th century) (Joan Ramis).
Romanticism: This was a cultural movement that began in Germany and England at the end of the eighteenth century and extended to other European countries during the nineteenth century.
Renaixença: (1833 to 1890) In the nineteenth century, the recovery of Catalan culture and language began, along with literary cultivation. Its objectives are: to promote literary activity, create a literature of its own, increase understanding of history itself, and create Catalanist institutions. In 1833, the publication of the homeland (poem by Charles Aribau) and the establishment of the Floral Games in 1859 (a Catalan poetry contest) occurred. In 1877, the publication of Atlantis by Jacinto Verdaguer (poem) took place.
Nouveau: (part of the 1892 movement) (youth, progress, innovation) (Gaudí..)