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The Poetry of Alan Seeger
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Danny Swopes
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Summary
Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York. When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years.
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 New York’s Greenwich Village, and thereafter moved 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 24th August 24th, 1914, he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies.
On American Independence day, 4th July 1917, whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerrem he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died.
His poetry was published posthumously later that year; although not a great success, 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.
Also inscribed upon it are Seeger’s moving words: “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."
01 - The Poetry of Alan Seeger - An Introduction
02 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger
03 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger
04 - The Hosts by Alan Seeger
05 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger
06 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger
07 - On a Theme in the Greek Anthology by Alan Seeger
08 - Sonnet I by Alan Seeger
09 - Sonnet 3 by Alan Seeger
10 - Sonnet 5 by Alan Seeger
11 - Sonnet 6 by Alan Seeger
12 - Sonnet 8 by Alan Seeger
13 - Sonnet 10 by Alan Seeger
14 - Sonnet 11 by Alan Seeger
15 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger
16 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger
17 - With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College by Alan Seeger
18 - Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty by Alan Seeger
19 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger
20 - On The Cliffs Newport by Alan Seeger
21 - Do You Remember by Alan Seeger
22 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger
23 - I Loved.... by Alan Seeger
24 - Fragments by Alan Seeger
25 - The Need To Love by Alan Seeger
26 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger
27 - Paris by Alan Seeger
28 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger