Estética romántica de la arqueología: la poética de las ruinas en José María Heredia

In the Fragmentos descriptivos de un poema mexicano, 1820, the Cuban poet Jose Maria Heredia (1803-1839) establishes in his poetics the exquisite romantic theme of meditation among ruins. Starting from the Fragmentos, tittled in the final version En el teocalli de Cholula, 1832, and going through a number of texts including Placeres de la melancolia, A la gran piramide de Egipto, Athenas y Palmira, Las ruinas de Mayquetia, Heredia creates a lyrical corpus that gives light and form to his reflections on the issue of the representation of the past, on the phenomenology of memory, on the epistemology of history, and the hermeneutics of the human temporal condition.