The Puerto Rican Literature Project

José Vassallo Gordils was born in 1868 in Barcelona, Spain and died in 1921 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was a postromantic Parnassian poet associated with the Generation of 1880. His works include El Güiro (Imp. El Buscapié, 1883), Violetas (Impr. y Librería de Acosta, 1889), and Los amores de la infancia (Boletín Mercantil, 1889).

Works Cited

Malaret, Augusto. Diccionario de Provincialismos de Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1917, pp. 83-6.

Pérez, Ángel. José Vassallo Gordils: Un Poeta de la Generación del 80. University of Puerto Rico Press, 2007.

Rosa-Nieves, Cesareo. La poesía en Puerto Rico, 3ª edición. Editorial Edil Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1969, pp. 63-70, 142, 217.