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JOSE MARIA DE See also:HEREDIA (1842-1905)
, See also:French poet, the See also:modern See also:master of the French See also:sonnet, was See also:born at See also:Fortuna Cafeyere, near See also:Santiago de See also:Cuba, on the 22nd of See also:November 1842, being in See also:blood See also:part See also:Spanish See also:Creole and part French
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At the See also:age of eight he came from the See also:West Indies to See also:France, returning thence to See also:Havana at seventeen, and finally making France his See also:home not See also:long afterwards
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He received his classical See also:education with the priests of See also:Saint See also:Vincent at Senlis, and after a visit to Havana he studied at the Ecole See also:des Chartes at See also:Paris
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In the later 'sixties, with See also:Francois See also:Coppee, See also:Sully-Prudhomme, See also:Paul See also:Verlaine and others less distinguished, he made one of the See also:band of poets who gathered See also:round Leconte de See also:Lisle, and received the name of Parnassiens
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To this new school, See also:form—the technical See also:side of their See also:art—was of supreme importance, and, in reaction against the See also:influence of See also:Musset, they rigorously repressed in their See also:work the expression of See also:personal feeling and emotion
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" True See also:poetry," said M. de See also:Heredia in his discourse on entering the See also:Academy—" true poetry dwells in nature and in humanity, which are eternal, and not in the See also:heart of the creature of a See also:day, however See also:great." M. de Heredia's See also:place in the See also:movement was soon assured
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He wrote very little, and published even less, but his sonnets circulated in MS., and gave him a reputation before they appeared in 1893, together with a few longer poems, as a See also:volume, under the See also:title of See also:Les Trophees
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He was elected to the Academy on the 22nd of See also:February 1894, in the place of See also: Francois Coppee called them . Each presents a picture, striking, brilliant, See also:drawn with unfaltering See also:hand—the picture of some characteristic See also:scene in See also:man's long history . The verse is flawless, polished like a See also:gem; and its See also:sound has distinction and See also:fine See also:harmony . If one may suggest a See also:fault, it is that each picture is sometimes too much of a picture only, and that the poetical See also:line, like that of M. de Heredia's master, Leconte de Lisle himself, is occasionally overcrowded . M. de Heredia was none the less one of the most skilful craftsmen who ever practised the art of verse . In 1901 he became librarian of the Bibliotheque de 1'See also:Arsenal at Paris . He died at the See also:Chateau de Bourdonne (See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise) on the 3rd of See also:October 1905, having completed his See also:critical edition of See also:Andre See also:Chenier's See also:works . |
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