var s_account="msnportalencartaau"; ninemsn Home Hotmail My ninemsn Sign in ... More Additional Reference Thesaurus Bilingual Dictionaries Sidebar Primary Resources Homework Resources Foreign Language Help Times Archive Literature Guides ... Project Starters Support Encarta Products Encarta Answers Encarta Worldwide Help Encarta Search Search Encarta about Seeger, Alan Seeger, Alan Encyclopedia Article Find in this article View printer-friendly page E-mail Seeger, Alan (1888-1916), American poet, known for his World War I poems. Seeger was born in New York and educated at Harvard University . He went to Paris in 1912, where he lived in the Latin Quarter and wrote sensuous, romantic poetry. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Seeger joined the French Foreign Legion. Seeger continued to write poetry during the war; his poems acquired maturity and reflectiveness, qualities that culminated in his famous âI Have a Rendezvous with Death'. Seeger was killed at Belloy-en-Santerre, July 4, 1916; his Poems were published later in the same year. Find in this article View printer-friendly page E-mail How to cite this article: "Seeger, Alan," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2007 | |
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