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La Tumba del Marino begins: — He is dead! They say on the ship speeding to distant Spain. Into the water with him, exclaims indifferently the captain. And the poet envies 322 LITERARY HISTORY OF SPANISH AMERICA the ship wishing he might throw his dead heart into the waters. El ultimo Pensamiento de Weber is a poetic inter- pretation of a musical composition much admired by Ven- ezuelans. "Virgins, listen, " the poet cries, and they hearken to a rhapsody on the transitoriness of human life. The ...theory of poetics which makes beauty the supreme object of art, while the personality of the artist is subor- dinated to the point of disappearance, sometimes called the Parnassian school, as exemplified in Leconte de L'IsIe and the French poet, J. M. Heredia, had its followers in Venezuela toward the end of the nineteenth century. Jacinto Gutierrez Coll and Manuel Fombona Palacio were perhaps its two closest adherents. But the spirit of individuality is too keenly felt by Spanish Americans to> be long subordinated.
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