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Alan Seeger [1888-1916] USA
Ranked #178 in the top 380 poets
Votes 51%: 172 up, 162 down

"American Rupert Brooke." Desire for his life to end gloriously at an early age. Fought and died in World War I.

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.  After 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. The poetry he wrote then and while he was at the front was not published until 1917, a year after his death..  His collective work Poems was reviewed in 1917 in The Egoist, where the critic commented that "Seeger was serious about his work and spent pains over i

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YearsCountryPoetInteraction
1887-1915
ENG
Rupert Brooke
← resembles by Alan Seeger


WorkLangRating
I Have A Rendezvous With Death. . .
eng
69
Sonnet XII
eng
7
At The Tomb Of Napoleon
eng
5
Resurgam
eng
4
Sonnet I
eng
4
Sonnet 10
eng
3
The Rendezvous
eng
2
Do You Remember Once . . .
eng
1
Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
eng
1
Sonnet 03
eng
1
Sonnet 04
eng
1
Sonnet IX
eng
1
Sonnet XVI
eng
1
The Hosts
eng
1
A Message To America
eng
0
After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
eng
0
All That`s Not Love . . .
eng
0
An Ode To Antares
eng
0
Antinous
eng
0
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99
eng
0
Bellinglise
eng
0
Broceliande
eng
0
Champagne, 1914-15
eng
0
Coucy
eng
0
El Extraviado
eng
0
Eudaemon
eng
0
Fragments
eng
0
I Loved...
eng
0
Introduction
eng
0
Juvenilia, An OdeTo Natural Beauty
eng
0
Kyrenaikos
eng
0
La Nue
eng
0
Liebestod
eng
0
Lyonesse
eng
0
Maktoob
eng
0
On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
eng
0
On The Cliffs, Newport
eng
0
Oneata
eng
0
Paris
eng
0
Sonnet 01
eng
0
Sonnet 02
eng
0
Sonnet 05
eng
0
Sonnet 06
eng
0
Sonnet 07
eng
0
Sonnet 08
eng
0
Sonnet 11
eng
0
Sonnet 12
eng
0
Sonnet II
eng
0
Sonnet III
eng
0
Sonnet IV
eng
0
Sonnet V
eng
0
Sonnet VI
eng
0
Sonnet VII
eng
0
Sonnet VIII
eng
0
Sonnet X
eng
0
Sonnet XI
eng
0
Sonnet XIII
eng
0
Sonnet XIV
eng
0
Sonnet XV
eng
0
Tezcotzinco
eng
0
The Aisne
eng
0
The Bayadere
eng
0
The Deserted Garden
eng
0
The Need To Love
eng
0
The Nympholept
eng
0
The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
eng
0
The Sultan`s Palace
eng
0
The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
eng
0
The Wanderer
eng
0
Tithonus
eng
0
To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
eng
0
Translations
eng
0
Virginibus Puerisque . . .
eng
0
Vivien
eng
0
With A Copy Of Shakespeare`
eng
0
Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
eng
0

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