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Died: July 4, 1916, at Belloy-en-Santerre, France
Alan Seeger was born to Charles Louis Seeger and Elsie Simmons Adams Seeger. The family was from New England. Alan had two siblings, Charles and Elizabeth. The two boys started their education at the Hackley school in New York.
In 1906 Alan enrolled at Harvard. During his early years there he was an avid reader. In his senior years he bloomed. He served as editor for the Harvard Monthly and did some minor translations of Dante and Ariosto. By the time he graduated in 1910, he had decided that he would make his living writing poetry.
To the disappointment of his parents, Alan chose to search out a unconventional lifestyle rather than embarking on a traditional career. Tired of New York, he traveled to Paris seeking adventure. He deeply loved France and decided to fight in the French Foreign Legion rather than an American unit during World War I. Seeger was killed in the Battle of Somme. The French government awarded him with two medals of honor, the Croix de Guerre and the M�daille Militaire, after his death.
Alan Seeger's poems are lyrical in nature reflecting the influence of music that may have been a family trait. His brother Charles was a musicologist and the father of Pete Seeger, a famous musician. Alan Seeger wrote of the war using romance and chivalry and the optimism of his poetry has been compared to that of Rupert Brooke.
Seeger's works can be found in Poems, a collection of poetry, and in Letters and Diary, a volume of personal note, which were both published posthumously in 1917. The celebrated I have a Rendezvous with Death is included in Poems.
Alan Seeger: The Complete Works
American poet who provided the voice of
the idealistic youth and soldier of his era. At the outbreak of World War I, Seeger
enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and was killed in action.