The Puerto Rican Literature Project

The author of “¡Sursum corda!”, Eugenio Benítez Castaño, was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico in 1878 and died in 1918.  He studied jurisprudence and law at the National University of Washington. He is brother to three other Puerto Rican poets: María Babiana Benítez, Alejandrina Benítez, and José Gautier Benítez.

Works Cited

Coll y Toste, Cayetano. Plumas amigas. Sociedad de Escritores y Artistas de Puerto Rico, Tip. Cantero Fernández & Co., San Juan, 1912, pp. 156-158.

Ribera Chevremont, Evaristo y José S. Alegría. Antología de poetas jóvenes de Puerto Rico. Real Hermanos Tips., 1918.

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina. Diccionario de literatura puertorriqueña. First edition, Edición de la Torre, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1955.

Rosa-Nieves, Cesareo. La poesía en Puerto Rico. Third edition, Editorial Edil Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1969.