Leonard Bacon (poet)

Leonard Bacon (poet)

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name = Leonard Bacon


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birthdate = Birth date|1887|5|26
birthplace = Solvay, NY, USA
deathdate = Death date and age|1954|1|1|1887|5|26
deathplace = Peace Dale, RI, USA
occupation = Poet
nationality = American
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awards = Pulitzer Prize for Poetry


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Leonard Bacon was a Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems "Sunderland Capture".

Works

* "The Heroic Ballads of Servia" (1913) (translated from Spanish)
* "The Cid" (1919) (translated from Spanish)
* "Ulug beg" (1923)
* "Ph.D.s" (1925)
* "Guinea-fowl and other Poultry" (1927)
* "Lost Buffalo, and other Poems" (1930)
* "Sunderland Capture" (1940) (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
* "Day of Fire" (1943)

External links

* [http://www.nyslittree.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/DB.PersonDetail/PersonPK/207.cfm New York State Literary Tree: Leonard Bacon]
* [http://ead.library.jhu.edu/ms317.xml Biographical Notes, Leonard Bacon]


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