Alan Seeger

My friend Tim Sullivan sent me the inspiring story of Alan Seeger, a Yank who volunteered to join the French and British forces after the Kaiser invaded Belgium and France in 1914.

John Tepper Marlin: A Salute to Those Who Have Fought For Us 2008

Kilmer_, _Alan Seeger_, _Walt Whitman_; Rhys Carpenter, _To Rupert

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

Alan Seeger cries out for Paris as the ideal habitat of the singer.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

The verse of Rupert Brooke and Alan Seeger surely makes it plain that warfare was the spark which touched off their genius, even as it might have done Byron's,

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

Alan Seeger and Victor Chapman have been called out to us for the poetic spell they cast upon America.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

Alan Seeger and Joyce Kilmer made the memory of the soldier poet lasting.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

Although America was not yet in the war, a tardiness which had been a great grief to Alan Seeger, there is a poetic coincidence in the fact that he met his death on July 4, 1916, while the Legion was carrying out an attack on the little village of Belloy-en-Santerre.

Biographical Notes. Jessie B 1922

He used enviously to read about Alan Seeger and those fortunate American boys who had a right to fight for a civilization they knew.

VIII. Book Four: The Voyage of the Anchises 1922

I believe that Alan Seeger, that valiant American who also lies over there, expressed the wish of each of these when he said:

The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922

There were men like Alan Seeger, who chanced to be in Europe when war broke out; many of these joined up with the nearest fighting units.

Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921