The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Arturo O’Neill was born in 1897 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. He was a lawyer, poet, the son of the Romantic-Parnassian poet Luis O’Neill y Martínez, and the brother of the poet and dean of Puerto Rican librarians, Luis O'Neill de Milán. He published in the quarterly magazine Brújula. His poetry includes "The Voice of the Hours" (1920), “Eutanasia,” and “Renacimiento”.

Works Cited

Arana-Soto, Salvador. Catálogo de poetas puertorriqueños. First edition, Sociedad de autores puertorriqueños, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1968.

Brújula. Edited by Cesáreo Rosa-Nieves, vol. 3, no. 9-10, Círculo de Maestros de Español de Puerto Rico, San Juan, 1937.

Rosa-Nieves, Cesáreo. Aguinaldo lírico de la poesía puertorriqueña. Tome 2, Editorial Edil Inc., Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1971. Revised edition.

Torres Rivera, Enrique. Parnaso portorriqueño. Casa editorial Maucci, Barcelona, 1920.