Occupation Poet Education Yale University Nationality American | Name Leonard Bacon Awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Role Poet | |
Born May 26, 1887
Solvay, New York, U.S. ( 1887-05-26 ) Died January 1, 1954, Peace Dale, Rhode Island, United States Books The genesis of the New England churches Similar People Marti de Riquer i Morera, Angel Crespo, Gerard J Brault, Luis de Camoes | ||
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
Leonard Bacon was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. He graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until his retirement in 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym 'Autholycus'. He and his family lived in Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932. He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1942.
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