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Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387001297
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 074261297X
Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : War poetry, American
ISBN : 1973794969
WAR POET is a biography of American poet, Alan Seeger, killed at the battle of the Somme in July 1916 and author of "I Have a Rendezvous with Death," the favorite poem of President John F. Kennedy and one of the most powerful and memorable war poems of all time. When first published in the fall of 1916, Seeger became an instant hero in America and, in Europe, many compared him to the martyred British poet Rupert Brooke. His death was seen by many as "one of the most romantic incidents of the war" and declared his poetry "the authentic voice of ... war's ennobling glory." Theodore Roosevelt called Seeger a "gallant, gifted young man ... A dreamer of dreams, whose deeds made his death nobly good." Even after the Great War ended the memory of Seeger and his poem did not die, with literary allusions to his work and his "rendezvous with death" making their way into the works of such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. With a single poem, Alan Seeger entered the pantheon of history's greatest war poets. Even now, over one hundred years later, it is a work of power and magic which still resonates through generation after generation of Americans. Drawing on new and important archival material, Michael Hill, author of "Elihu Washburne: Diary and Letters of America's Minister to France During the Siege and Commune of Paris", paints a noble and poignant portrait of this little known but fascinating American poet.
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783949252
Alan Seeger was born on June 22nd 1888 in New York. The family moved to Staten Island when he was 1 for 9 years and then on to Mexico until he was 12. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906 where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in Greenwich Village, New York thereafter moving to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter. War's looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies. On American Independence day, July 4th, 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died. His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it was not a great success but his poem 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . .' is now regarded as a classic. On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis. The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration. Two quotes from his poem 'Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France are inscribed upon it: "They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honour implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories."
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497884608
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783949252
Alan Seeger was born on June 22nd 1888 in New York. The family moved to Staten Island when he was 1 for 9 years and then on to Mexico until he was 12. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906 where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in Greenwich Village, New York thereafter moving to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter. War's looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies. On American Independence day, July 4th, 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died. His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it was not a great success but his poem 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . .' is now regarded as a classic. On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis. The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration. Two quotes from his poem 'Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France are inscribed upon it: "They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honour implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories."
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4064066230524
"Poems" by Alan Seeger is a collection of work from this American poet who fought and died in World War I. Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty, The Deserted Garden, The Torture of Cuauhtemoc, The Nympholept, The Wanderer, The Need to Love, El Extraviado, La Nue, All That's Not Love . . ., Paris, The Sultan's Palace, Fragments, thirty sonnets, and more are all collected in this heartfelt collection of poems.
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406542563
Alan Seeger (1888-1916) was an American poet 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. Seeger joined the French Foreign Legion so that he could fight for the Allies in World War I. 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.
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1034887998
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 - 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist. He is best known for the poem I Have a Rendezvous with Death, a favorite of President John F. Kennedy. A statue representing him is on the monument in the Place des États-Unis, Paris, honoring fallen Americans who volunteered for France during the war. Seeger is sometimes called the "American Rupert Brooke."
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3882437510
American writer and bohemian Alan Seeger was only 24 years old when he turned his back on New York and left for Paris, a city that seemed almost unreal to him. Once there he mingled with various artists and writers and soon developed his own literary style. But when his first volume of poems was about to be published, World War I broke out. A true romantic who wanted to live life to the fullest, Seeger joined the foreign legion and went off to war, and died after a year on the front. Seeger's poetic work is characterized by its elegant language and unmarred idealism. First published posthumously in 1916, it is only being made available to the public in the first part of this new title. Readers will discover a romantic poet--in the tradition of Keats and Rimbaud, as well as Walt Whitman--possessed with the beauty of nature and in love with the world he experiences. Parts two and three of this set include his letters and journals, and photographs by Karl Lagerfeld of the landscapes Seeger describes in his poems.
Author : Chris Dickon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1689382589
As Alan Seeger perceived the landscape before him, everything was of a piece. Right and wrong were not ambiguous. Strife and tenderness had equal standing. All of it, good and bad, dark and light could only be seen and acted upon in the frame of a universe that was beautiful in its design and ultimately compassionate. Life was to be played out as it presented itself, justice was to be sought, and, in 1914, war was inevitable.He joined the French Foreign Legion. "I hope you see the thing as I do," he wrote to his mother in the month after the German invasion of Belgium and France " . . . the burden that so much of humanity is suffering under and, rather than standing ingloriously aside when the opportunity was given me, doing my share for the side that I think right . . ."He thrilled to the battle that was to come, and to the poetic notion that it might take his life. Resting from hard days of drilling with his fellows, he could lie in the grass and hear within the ground the "steady pounding of the distant cannonade." His was a vision of panoramas, and, as he marched toward the war, he saw 4,000 men moving forward before him in columns of four, "undulating" through the hills of France and firmly led by their captains and lieutenants on horseback."You have no idea how beautiful it is to see," he told his mother, who was ever the touchstone with the life he had left behind forever in America. From the author: The story of this important and nearly forgotten American poet has turned out to be much more than the story I imagined it would be. It will take us through two hundred and fifty years of history, and the eras of knights and warriors. We will travel from Staten Island to rural and urban Mexico, then to Tarrytown and Cambridge. We will be down and out in Greenwich Village, and brought to vitality in the streets of Paris, followed by a magnificent walk through the villages of northeastern France. We will live in the trenches and ruined chateaus of war, stand with the night sentry as he contemplates the sky - and there will be poetry
Author : Tim Dayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418782
Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.
Author : Alan Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1335758517
Author : Chris Dickon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0692851135
[The solemnity of Seeger's work] is thoroughgoing, 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. - T. S. Eliot In this first modern biography of famed "Great War" poet Alan Seeger, Chris Dickon uses previously untapped papers and archives to reveal Seeger as a complex, enigmatic, and fatalistic genius confronting with robust, romantic intensity both his art and the war in which he found himself. From Seeger's affluent childhood in New York and Mexico, to his college days at Harvard with friend John Reed, to Bohemian Greenwich Village and finally the Left Bank of Paris, and his last year in the trenches of Northern France ... Dickon's masterful book tells the tale of Seeger's short life with great depth, clarity, and sympathy. Perhaps most importantly, Dickon shows the expatriate American Seeger as an avid soldier for France long before the time when the United States finally entered the war. In doing so, Dickon not only delivers an eloquent narrative of Seeger's works and days, but also expertly places him in the context of both his time and ours.
Author : Mark W. Van Wienen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0252070593
This masterfully assembled volume, arranged chronologically, reveals American poets' shifting, conflicting reactions to the war and highlights their efforts to shape U.S. policies and define American attitudes. In his introduction, Mark W. Van Wienen describes the rapid, politically charged responses possible in a culture attuned to poetry. His historical and biographical notes provide a sturdy framework for the study of poetry's role in social activism and change during the "war to end war." The most complete resource of its kind, Rendezvous with Death brings together poetry originally published in little magazines, labor journals, newspapers, and wartime anthologies. Alight with sorrow, grace, silliness, satire, pride, and anger, works by IWW members, sock poets, pacifists, and protestors take their places next to those by Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Wallace Stevens, James Weldon Johnson, Amy Lowell, and Claude McKay.