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Leonard Bacon (poet)

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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.

Works

  • The Heroic Ballads of Servia (1913) (translated from Spanish)
  • Chanson de Roland (1914) (translated from French)
  • The Cid (1919) (translated from Spanish)
  • Sophia Trenton (1920)
  • Ulug beg (1923)
  • Ph.D.s (1925)
  • Animula Vagula (1926)
  • Guinea-fowl and other Poultry (1927)
  • Lost Buffalo, and other Poems (1930)
  • Sunderland Capture (1940) (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
  • Day of Fire (1943)
  • References

    Leonard Bacon (poet) Wikipedia