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27 de jun. de 2018 · Alan Seeger, an American volunteer in the French Foreign Legion, encloses a poem with a letter to his godmother. Nine sentences and 14 lines: an update from a tiny, unidentified village to the ...
Seeger wrote ‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death’ as a young man while he as serving in the First World War. He was a soldier in the French military. The poem was not published until 1917, after his death. A reader will likely feel inclined to assume that the experiences of the soldier in the poem are those of Seeger himself.
Alan Seeger (New York, 22 giugno 1888 – Belloy-en-Santerre, 4 luglio 1916) è stato un poeta statunitense. Il fratello Charles fu noto musicologo e padre di Pete Seeger , il noto cantautore popolare, del quale quindi Alan era zio.
The poet Alan Seeger, born in New York and educated at Harvard University, lived among artists and poets in Greenwich Village, New York and Paris, France. When the Great War engulfed Europe, and before the United State entered the fighting, Seeger joined the French Foreign Legion. He would be killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France. By Alan Seeger. (To have been read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington in Paris, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1916) I. Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When—with sweet flowers of our New England May. Hiding the lichened stones by fifty ...
Alan Seeger. Alan Seeger was born in New York City on June 22, 1888, and received a BA from Harvard University in 1910. Known for his poetic representation of the First World War, Seeger was the author of Poems (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916) and Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917), both published posthumously.
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888– 4 July 1916) was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the uncle of American folk singer Pete Seeger, and was a classmate of T.S. Eliot at Harvard. He is most well known for having authored the poem, I Have a Rendezvous with Death, a favorite of President John F. Kennedy.
