The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Eugenio Astol was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico in 1868 and died in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1948. Astol won many awards for his participation as an orator in ceremonies and public activities. He was also a journalist and published in political and literary magazines in Mayagüez, Ponce, San Juan, and outside of Puerto Rico. His publications include Noche de fiesta (La Democracia, 1897), Cuentos y fantasías (1904), Tres banderas: comedia en un acto y prosa (Tip. La Defensa, 1912), En torno de Cristo (Maucci, 1931), Hombres del pasado (1934), Pláticas por radio (Imp. La Primavera, 1934), Religión y Religiones and Masonería Esotérica.

Works Cited

Fernández Méndez, Eugenio. Antología de la poesía puertorriqueña. Ediciones El Cemí, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1968.

“¿Qué somos? ¿Cómo somos?” Documents of Latin American and Latino Art, International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, icaa.mfah.org/s/en/item/853128#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1116%2C0%2C3930%2C2199. Original publication year 1929. 

“‘Tres banderas’ de eugenio astol”. Buenas Tareas, 31 January 2011, www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Tres-Banderas-De-Eugenio-Astol/1476455.html.