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Biographie Alan Seeger

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A Message to America :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5265 affiches)

After an Epigram of Clement Marot :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5211 affiches)

All That's Not Love . . . :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5207 affiches)

An Ode to Antares :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5088 affiches)

Antinous :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5004 affiches)

Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (4969 affiches)

At the Tomb of Napoleon :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (4887 affiches)

Bellinglise :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5399 affiches)

Broceliande :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5264 affiches)

Champagne, 1914-15 :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5128 affiches)

Coucy :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5282 affiches)

Do You Remember Once . . . :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (4860 affiches)

Eudaemon :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5294 affiches)

Fragments :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (5447 affiches)

I have a Rendezvous with Death :
Poèmes 2009-01-26 (7874 affiches)

Paris :
Poèmes 2009-01-10 (5740 affiches)

Sonnets (I) :
Poèmes 2009-06-12 (5073 affiches)

Sonnets (II) :
Poèmes 2009-06-12 (5128 affiches)

The Deserted Garden :
Poèmes 2009-01-10 (5117 affiches)

To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War :
Poèmes 2009-06-12 (4931 affiches)

Biographie Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger, born on June 22, 1888 and died July 4, 1916, was an American poet who also fought in World War I.

Born in New York, Seeger moved with his family to Staten Island at the age of one and remained there until the age of ten. In 1900, his family moved to Mexico for two years, which influenced the imagery of some of his poetry. His brother Charles Seeger, a noted musicologist, was the father of the American folk singer, Pete Seeger.

Seeger entered Harvard in 1906 after attending several elite preparatory schools, including Hackley School. At Harvard, he edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. After graduating in 1910, he moved to Greenwich Village for two years, where he wrote poetry and enjoyed the life of a young bohemian.

During that time, he attended soirées at the Mlles. Petitpas\' boardinghouse (319 West 29th Street), where the presiding genius was the artist and sage John Butler Yeats, father of the poet.[1]

Having moved to the Latin Quarter of Paris to continue his seemingly itinerant intellectual lifestyle, on August 24, 1914, Seeger joined the French Foreign Legion so that he could fight for the Allies in World War I (the United States did not enter the war until 1917). He was killed in action at Belloy-en-Santerre, famously cheering on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge after being hit several times himself by machine gun fire. One of his more famous poems, I Have a Rendezvous with Death, was published posthumously. Indeed, a recurrent theme in both his poetic works and his personal writings prior to falling in battle was his desire for his life to end gloriously at an early age.

Seeger\'s poetry was not published until 1917, a year after his death. Poems, a collection of his works, was relatively unsuccessful, due, according to Eric Homberger, to its lofty idealism and language, qualities out of fashion in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Poems was reviewed in The Egoist, where the critic commented that \"Seeger was serious about his work and spent pains over it. The work is well done, and so much out of date as to be almost a positive quality. It is high-flown, heavily decorated and solemn, but its solemnity is thorough going, not a mere literary formality. Alan Seeger, as one who knew him can attest, lived his whole life on this plane, with impeccable poetic dignity; everything about him was in keeping.\" The man who wrote this review of Poems was T. S. Eliot, Seeger\'s classmate at Harvard.