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Comprehensive information about poet Alan Seeger including poetry, biographical information, quotes, literary works, and more. Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger is the uncle of American folk singer Pete Seeger, and was a classmate of T.S. Eliot at Harvard. He is most well known for having authored the poem, I Have a Rendezvous with Death, a favorite of President John F. Kennedy. A statue modeled after Seeger is found on the monument honoring fallen Americans who volunteered for France during the war, located at the Place des États-Unis, Paris . This educational Alan Seeger resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.


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Quote Left I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade. Quote Right
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