271. JUIN. From les Mois.
272. L'HOROSCOPE. From le Reliquaire.
273. L'ATTENTE. From Poèmes modernes.
275. CHANSON D'EXIL, "QUAND VOUS ME MONTREZ UNE ROSE," LIED and ÉTOILES FILANTES are from l'Exilée.
277. A UN ÉLÉGIAQUE. From Contes en vers et poésies diverses. The story of the Spartan boy and the fox may be found in Plutarch's Lycurgus, 18. The idea should be compared with the artistic doctrine of the impassibles.
JOSÉ-MARIA DE HEREDIA.
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He was born in Cuba, but was educated and has resided in France. He attracted notice among the Parnassiens by the degree of perfection with which he rendered in words the element of plastic beauty and the rare finish and precision of his style. He has used almost exclusively the form of the sonnet, to which he has given a new power and amplitude.
Works: Les Trophies, 1893 (many of the sonnets composing this volume had appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes and elsewhwere and had long been admired).
For reference: J. Lemaitre, les Contemorains, vol. ii, 1887; F.
Brunetière, Évolution de la poésie lyrique, vol. ii, 1894; M. de
Vogüé, Devant le siècle, 1896; Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats,
New York, 1896.