José María de Heredia
(La Fortuna, 1842-Bourdonné, 1905) Cuban poet who was known as "the Frenchified Heredia" for his training within that culture and for his biography, which led him to reside most of his life in Paris.
José María de Heredia
Descendant of one of the conquerors who were with Hernán Cortés in America and son of a mother French, José María de Heredia studied in France (from 1851 to 1858, at the Saint-Vincent de Senlis school) and Cuba (from 1859 to 1861, at the Faculty of Letters in Havana).He became known in the latter country thanks to his first verses, composed in the style of Leconte de Lisle, of whom he was to become a disciple and faithful friend.
When he settled permanently in Paris in 1861, José María de Heredia devoted himself, with little interest, to legal studies, and followed the École des Chartes courses with greater enthusiasm.At the same time, he published in Parnassian magazines the poetic essays later collected in Los trophies (1893).Poet not very fruitful, but refined and aristocratic, in his carefully crafted sonnets he expertly evoked and chiselled myths and stories from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
In 1894, thanks to Los trophies , he entered the French Academy; but he always led a modest life, and in 1901 he accepted the appointment of director of the Arsenal Library.He never moved away from a severe feeling for art or an impeccable technique, and this both in the original compositions and in the magnificent translation (1877-87) of the True History of the events of the conquest of New Spain , by the chronicler and captain Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and in the valuable edition (1905) of the Bucólicas by André Chénier.
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