The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Enrique Zorrilla de San Martín was born in 1880 in Manatí, Puerto Rico and passed away in 1928 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He studied in his hometown, but at the age of eleven traveled to Spain to complete his education. He studied at the University of Valladolid in Spain, but returned to Puerto Rico when the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898. Shortly afterward, he was forced to take over the family businesses when his father died. His poems include “Versos a Dulcinea” (Tip. Real Hermanos, 1918), “Sueño de gesta” (Maucci, 1920), and “Alma española” (Maucci, 1920).

Works Cited

Cabrera, Francisco Manrique. Historia de la literatura puertorriqueña. Publicaciones Gaviota, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 2010.

“Enrique Zorrilla de San Martín Caballero.” Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133284974/enrique-zorrilla_de_san_mart%C3%ADn_caballero. 

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

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