ms; Pinzon Rico (b. 1834),
author of popular, romantic songs; Cesar Conto (b. 1836),
a jurist and educator; Jorge Isaacs (1837-1895), better
known as author of the novel _Maria_; and Felipe Perez (b.
1834).

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the most
eminent man of letters in Colombia has been Miguel Antonio
Caro (1843-1909), a son of J.E. Caro. A neo-Catholic and
"traditionalist," a learned literary critic and a poet,
the younger Caro, like Bello before him and like his
distinguished contemporary Rufino Jose Cuervo, has worked
for purity of diction and classical ideals in literature.
Caro is also the translator of several classic works,
including one of Virgil which is recognized as the best in
Spanish.

Other poets of the closing years of the century are:
Diogenes Arrieta (b. 1848), a journalist and educator;
Ignacio Gutierrez Ponce (1850), a physician; Antonio Gomez
Restrepo (b. 1856), a lawyer and politician; Jose Maria
Garavito A. (b. 1860); Jose Rivas Groot (b. 1864), an
educator and literary critic, and editor of _La lira
nueva_; Joaquin Gonzalez Camargo (b. 1865), a physician;
Agripina Montes del Valle (b. about the middle of the
nineteenth century) noted for her ode to the Tequendama
waterfall, and Justo Pastor Rios (1870-), a philosophic
poet and liberal journalist.

The "modernista" poet Jose Asuncion Silva (1860-1896) was
a sweet singer, but he brought no message. He was fond of
odd forms, such as lines of 8+8, 8+8+8 and 8+8+4 syllables
(_Poesias, con Prologo de Miguelde Unamuno_, Barcelona,
1908).

References: Cf.: Menendez y Pelayo, _Ant. Poetas
Hisp.-Amer._, III, p. 1 f.; Blanco Garcia, III, 332
f.; Juan Valera, _Cartas Am., primera serie_, p. 121
f.; _Historia de la literatura (1538-1820) en Nueva
Granada_, Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara, Bogota, 1867;
_Apuntes sobre bibliografia colombiana, con page 291
muestras escogidas en prosa y verso_, Isidoro Laverde
Amaya, Bogota, 1882; _Parnaso colombiano_, J.M.
Vergara y Vergara, 3 vols.; _La lira granadina_, J.M.
Vergara y Vergara, Bogota, 1865; _Parnaso colombiano_,
Julio Anez, _con Prologo de Jose Rivas Groot_, 2
vols., Bogota, 1886-87; _La lira nueva_, J.M. Rivas
Groot, Bogota, 1886; _Antologia colombiana,_ Emiliano
Isaza, Paris, 1895.

Ortiz: see preceding note.

=Colombia y Espana=: In this poem, dated July 20, 1882,
the poet begins by recalling the war of ind