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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEREDIA Y CAMPUZANO (1803-1839)  , Cuban poet, was See also:born at See also:Santiago de See also:Cuba on the 31st of See also:December 1803, studied at the university of See also:Havana, and was called to the See also:bar in 1823 . In the autumn of 1823 he was arrested on a See also:charge of See also:conspiracy against the See also:Spanish See also:government, and was sentenced to banishment for See also:life . He took See also:refuge in the See also:United States, published a See also:volume of verses at New See also:York in 1825, and then went to See also:Mexico, where, becoming naturalized, he obtained a See also:post as See also:magistrate . In 1832 a collection of his poems was issued at See also:Toluca, and in 1836 he obtained permission to visit Cuba for two months . Disappointed in his See also:political ambitions, and broken in See also:health, See also:Heredia returned to Mexico in See also:January 1837, and died at Toluca on the 21st of May 1839 . Many of his earlier pieces are merely See also:clever See also:translations from See also:French, See also:English and See also:Italian; but his originality is placed beyond doubt by such poems as the Himno del deslerrado, the See also:epistle to See also:Emilia, Desenganos, and the celebrated See also:ode to See also:Niagara . See also:Bello may be thought to excel Heredia in See also:execution, and a few lines of Olmedo's See also:Canto d See also:Junin vibrate with a virile See also:passion to which the Cuban poet rarely attained; but the sincerity of his patriotism and the sublimity of his See also:imagination have secured for Heredia a real supremacy among Spanish-See also:American poets . The best edition of his See also:works is that published at See also:Paris in 1893 with a See also:preface by See also:Elias Zerolo .

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