{\b Alan Seeger}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 22 June 1888

{\b Date of Death}.: 4 July 1916

{\b Works}.

American poet and soldier. He is known for his wartime poetry, especially them 
his 'I Have a Rendezvous With Death' (1916). These are contained in his 
collection Poems, published in 1916. His Letters and Diary were published in 
1917.

{\b Featured Works}.

'"I Have a Rendezvous With Death"'.

{\b General Comment}.

Seeger was born in New York to parents from old New England families. Seeger's 
family lived on Staten Island for ten years of his life before moving to 
Mexico in 1900. He lived in Mexico at an impressionable age and this had a 
decisive impact on his poetry. At age fourteen he returned to New York for 
education at the Hackley School in Tarrytown. He then went to Harvard College 
in 1906. He became one of the editors of Harvard Monthly and contributed verse 
regularly. From 1910 to 1912 he lived aimlessly in New York before moving to 
Paris. He became very fond of Paris and, just after the outbreak of the World 
War One, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He served in the trenches 
on the western front and enjoyed the time on sentry duty for quiet 
contemplation. During the Battle of the Somme he was severely wounded when 
advancing on the German lines. He died shortly afterwards and was posthumously 
awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire.