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Seeger, Alan

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Seeger, Alan (1888–1916),New York‐born poet, graduated from Harvard (1910), went to Paris (1913), and at the beginning of World War I enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He was killed at Belloy‐en‐Santerre, in the Battle of the Somme. “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” (North American Review, Oct. 1916) is the most famous of his war poems, which were collected in Poems (1916). His Letters and Diary was published in 1917.

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Alan Seeger

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Alan Seeger 1888–1916, American poet, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1910. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and was killed in battle in 1916. He is famous for his war poem, "I Have a Rendezvous with Death."

Bibliography: See his Collected Poems (1916) and his letters and diary (1917).

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