I spoke of Les Trophies as a volume of sonnets.
That is not literally correct, but it is so substantially;



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for the two longer poems which accompany the
sonnets are decidedly less characteristic and im-
portant, and it is emphatically as a writer of sonnets
that Heredia is, and will continue to be, known. No
one who has read his book will doubt that he has
taken definite rank among the great masters of that
metrical form. There is a long line of them and it
contains names far more splendid than that of the
author of Les Trophies can ever be, but it may be
doubted if there be one of all that great company of
poets who has done the work which he set himself
to do with such entire success as Heredia.
