Leonard Bacon (1887–1954) was an American
poet
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, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher
Leonard Bacon
Reverend Leonard Bacon (February 19, 1802 – December 24, 1881) was an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven and was later professor of church history and polity at Yale College.
Biograp ...
, he graduated from
Yale University
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in 1909, and subsequently taught at
University of California, Berkeley
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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
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,
Italy
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from 1927 to 1932. He won the
1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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for his satiric poems ''Sunderland Capture''. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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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
External links
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Leonard Bacon Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
New York State Literary Tree: Leonard BaconBiographical Notes, Leonard BaconHervey Allen Papers, 1831-1965, SC.1952.01, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh*
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1887 births
1954 deaths
Poets from New York (state)
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
People from Onondaga County, New York
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Writers from Rhode Island
Yale University alumni
20th-century American poets
Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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