![]() ![]() It is high-flown, heavily decorated and solemn, but its solemnity is thorough going, not a mere literary formality. The work is well done, and so much out of date as to be almost a positive quality. Poems was reviewed in 1917 in The Egoist, where the critic commented that "Seeger was serious about his work and spent pains over it. Poems was not a successful work, due perhaps, according to Eric Homberger, to its lofty idealism and language, qualities out of fashion in the early decades of the twentieth century. ![]() The poetry he wrote then and while he was at the front was not published until 1917, a year after his death. Seeger spent two years in the French Foreign Legion as an American citizen he could not join the French military, so he did the next best thing and joined the Legion, since the United States had not yet entered the war against the Central Powers.Īfter graduating from Harvard in 1910, Seeger lived for two years in Greenwich Village where he wrote poetry and enjoyed the life of a young bohemian. Six years later he had his rendezvous with death at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916. Alan Seeger as a student at Harvard in 1910Īlan Seeger, born in 1888, was twenty-two when this photograph was taken while he was a student at Harvard. ![]()
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