Editing Rococo (section)

==Literature==
In literature the term is "unhelpfully vague, but usually suggests a cheerful lightness and intimacy of tone, and an elegant playfulness."{{sfn|Baldick|2015}} Principal Rococo [[literary genre]]s were small forms, such as erotic [[light poetry]] ({{langx|fr|poésie légère}} or ''poésie fugitive''), [[sonnet]], [[madrigal]] and other songs, [[pastoral]], fairy tail, [[novella]], but there were also long [[narrative poem]]s, for example, [[Christoph Martin Wieland]]'s German-language masterpiece ''[[Oberon (poem)|Oberon]]''.

Predominantly an [[18th-century French literature]] style, influenced by the 17th-century ''[[Précieuses]]'' school, is represented by [[Anne Claude de Caylus]], the author of the ''Art of Love'' P. J. Bernard, [[Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson de Pezay|Alexandre Masson de Pezay]] (the narrative poem ''Zélis' Bathing''), Abbé de Favre (the poem ''Les quatre heures de la toilette des dames''), [[Évariste de Parny]], [[Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray]], and other writers. The Rococo had also followers in Italy ([[Paolo Rolli]], [[Pietro Metastasio]]) and Germany ([[Friedrich von Hagedorn]],  [[Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim]], [[Johann Uz]],
[[Johann Nikolaus Götz]]),{{sfn|Ermatinger|1928}} and to a lesser extent, within English and Russian ([[Ippolit Bogdanovich]]) writings.