n Europe
he engaged in journalism and politics. He took part in
several civil wars. A candidate for the presidency of the
Republic, he was assassinated before election (_Poesias,
coleccion formada sobre los manuscritos originales, con
prologo por M.A. Caro_, New York, 1883).

The educator and journalist Jose Joaquin Ortiz (1814-1892) page 289
imitated Quintana in form but not in ideas.
Though a defender of neo-classicism, he did not entirely
reject romanticism. Ortiz was an ultra-catholic, sincere
and ascetic. His verses are impetuous and grandiloquent,
but often lacking depth of thought (_Poesias_, Bogota,
1880).

The poet Gregorio Gutierrez Gonzalez, "Antioco"
(1820-1872), was a jurist and politician. He began as an
imitator of Espronceda and Zorrilla and is the author of
several sentimental poems (_A Julia_, _?Por que no canto?_
_Una lagrima_, _et al._) that are the delight of Colombian
young ladies. His fame will doubtless depend on the rustic
Georgic poem, _Memoria sobre el cultivo del maiz en
Antioquia_. This work is an interesting and remarkably
poetic description of the homely life and labors of the
Antioquian country folk (_Poesias_, Bogota, 1881; Paris,
1908).

The minor poets of this generation are legion. Among these
are: Manuel Maria Madiedo (b. 1815), a sociologist; German
Gutierrez de Pineres (1816-1872), author of melancholy
verses; Jose Maria Rojas Garrido (1824-1883), a noted
orator, one-time president of Colombia; Joaquin Pablo
Posada (1825-1880), perhaps the most clever versifier of
Spanish America, but whose _decimas_ were mostly written
in quest of money; Ricardo Carrasquilla (b. 1827),
an educator and author of genial verses; Jose Manuel
Marroquin (b. 1827), a poet and author of articles on
customs and a foremost humorist of South America (he was
president when Colombia lost Panama); Jose Maria Samper
(b. 1828), a most voluminous writer; Rafael Nunez
(1825-1897), a philosopher and skeptic, and one-time
president of the Republic; Santiago Perez (1830-1900),
educator, journalist and one-time president; Jose Maria
Vergara y Vergara (1831-1872), a Catholic poet and
author of a volume of sentimental verses (_Libro de los
cantares_); Rafael Pombo (1833-1912), an eminent classical
scholar and literary critic, and "perpetual secretary" of
the Colombian Academy; Diego Fallon (b. 1834), page 290
son of an English father, and author of several highly
finished and beautiful poe