The Puerto Rican Literature Project

José Antonio Dávila was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1898 and died of tuberculosis in 1941. He attended primary school in Bayamón and secondary school in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He attended the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, then moved to the United States to continue his studies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Thomas Jefferson University where he graduated with a medical degree in 1924. He continued his medical training at a graduate school in Florida, specializing in urology in 1926. His poetry appeared in various periodicals, including Alma Latina, El Mundo, El Imparcial, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, and Revista del Ateneo Puertorriqueño. He also translated poetry from English to Spanish and Spanish to English. His published works include Vendimia (1940), Almacén de baratijas (1941), Mariano Feliú Balseiro: estudio biográfico de un pianista puertorriqueño (1941), Motivos de Tristán (1957), and Poemas (1964).

Works Cited

“José Antonio Dávila.” EnciclopediaPR, Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 15 September 2014, https://enciclopediapr.org/content/jose-antonio-davila/. 

“José Antonio Dávila: Su poesía.” EnciclopediaPR, Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 15 September 2014, enciclopediapr.org/content/jose-antonio-davila-su-poesia/.

Reyes Dávila, Marcos y José Antonio Dávila. “Más que vendimia, alas.” Mairena: Veinte poetas puertorriqueños del siglo XX, edited by Manuel de la Puebla, no. 45-6, San Juan, 1998, pp. 63-8.